Here you can find the source of getFirstChildElement(Node node)
public static Element getFirstChildElement(Node node)
//package com.java2s; /*//ww w. j a v a 2s . co m * JBoss, Home of Professional Open Source. * Copyright 2010, Red Hat Middleware LLC, and individual contributors * as indicated by the @author tags. See the copyright.txt file in the * distribution for a full listing of individual contributors. * * This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it * under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of * the License, or (at your option) any later version. * * This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU * Lesser General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public * License along with this software; if not, write to the Free * Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA * 02110-1301 USA, or see the FSF site: http://www.fsf.org. */ import org.w3c.dom.Element; import org.w3c.dom.Node; public class Main { public static Element getFirstChildElement(Node node) { Node child = node.getFirstChild(); while (child != null && child.getNodeType() != Node.ELEMENT_NODE) { child = child.getNextSibling(); } return (Element) child; } }