Here you can find the source of getChildElements(Element parent)
public static List<Element> getChildElements(Element parent)
//package com.java2s; /*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Copyright (c) 2004, 2006 OpenMethods, LLC * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html * * Contributors:/* ww w .ja va2 s . c o m*/ * Trip Gilman (OpenMethods), Lonnie G. Pryor (OpenMethods), * Vincent Pruitt (OpenMethods) * * T.D. Barnes (OpenMethods) - initial API and implementation -------------------------------------------------------------------------*/ import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.List; import org.w3c.dom.Element; import org.w3c.dom.Node; import org.w3c.dom.NodeList; public class Main { public static List<Element> getChildElements(Element parent) { List<Element> ret = new ArrayList<Element>(); NodeList childList = parent.getChildNodes(); for (int i = 0; i < childList.getLength(); i++) { if (childList.item(i).getNodeType() != Node.ELEMENT_NODE) continue; Element child = (Element) childList.item(i); ret.add(child); } return ret; } }