Java XML Child Remove All removeAllNamedChild(Element parent, String name)

Description

remove All Named Child

License

Apache License

Declaration

public static void removeAllNamedChild(Element parent, String name) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*/*from w w  w.ja  v  a  2  s  .  c  o  m*/
 * Copyright 2013 Keith D Swenson
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 *
 * Contributors Include: Shamim Quader, Sameer Pradhan, Kumar Raja, Jim Farris,
 * Sandia Yang, CY Chen, Rajiv Onat, Neal Wang, Dennis Tam, Shikha Srivastava,
 * Anamika Chaudhari, Ajay Kakkar, Rajeev Rastogi
 */

import org.w3c.dom.Element;

import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;

public class Main {
    public static void removeAllNamedChild(Element parent, String name) {
        NodeList childNdList = parent.getChildNodes();
        for (int i = 0; i < childNdList.getLength(); i++) {
            org.w3c.dom.Node n = childNdList.item(i);
            if (n == null) {
                continue; //there are strange cases where it can be null
            }
            if (n.getNodeType() != org.w3c.dom.Node.ELEMENT_NODE) {
                continue;
            }
            if (name.equals(n.getLocalName())) {
                parent.removeChild(n);
            }
            if (name.equals(n.getNodeName())) {
                parent.removeChild(n);
            }
        }
    }
}

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2. removeAllChildren(Node node)
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5. removeAllChildrenOfNode(Node node)