Here you can find the source of firstChildElement(Node node)
public static Element firstChildElement(Node node)
//package com.java2s; /******************************************************************************* * Copyright (c) 2008 Red Hat, Inc.// w w w . j a v a2 s .co m * Distributed under license by Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved. * This program is 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: * Red Hat, Inc. - initial API and implementation ******************************************************************************/ import org.w3c.dom.Element; import org.w3c.dom.Node; public class Main { public static Element firstChildElement(Node node) { for (Node tempNode = node.getFirstChild(); tempNode != null; tempNode = tempNode.getNextSibling()) { if (tempNode.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE) { return (Element) tempNode; } } return null; } }