Java XML Child Get getChildElements(Element parentNode)

Description

return all the child Elements of given Element; it's not deep search, so only the first generation children list is scanned.

License

Open Source License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
parentNode	a parameter

Exception

Parameter	Description
DOMException	an exception

Return

an empty list if nothing found

Declaration

public static List<Element> getChildElements(Element parentNode) throws DOMException 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import org.w3c.dom.DOMException;

import org.w3c.dom.Element;

import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;

public class Main {
    /**/*from w w w  . j  a  v a 2s  .  c  om*/
     * return all the child Elements of given Element; it's not deep search, so only the first generation children list is scanned.
     * 
     * @param parentNode
     * @return an empty list if nothing found
     * @throws DOMException
     */
    public static List<Element> getChildElements(Element parentNode) throws DOMException {
        if (parentNode == null) {
            return null;
        }
        List<Element> resultList = new ArrayList<Element>();
        NodeList childNodes = parentNode.getChildNodes();
        if (childNodes != null) {
            for (int i = 0; i < childNodes.getLength(); i++) {
                Node node = childNodes.item(i);
                if (node.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE && node.getParentNode() == parentNode) {
                    resultList.add((Element) node);
                }
            }
        }
        return resultList;
    }
}

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