Finds and returns the next sibling XML element node. - Java XML

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Finds and returns the next sibling XML element node.

Demo Code

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//package com.java2s;

import org.w3c.dom.Element;

import org.w3c.dom.Node;

public class Main {
    /**
     * Finds and returns the next sibling element node.
     */
    public static Element getNextSiblingElement(Node node) {

        // search for node
        Node sibling = node.getNextSibling();
        while (sibling != null) {
            if (sibling.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE) {
                return (Element) sibling;
            }
            sibling = sibling.getNextSibling();
        }

        // not found
        return null;

    }

    /**
     * Finds and returns the next sibling node with the given name.
     */
    public static Element getNextSiblingElement(Node node, String elemName) {

        // search for node
        Node sibling = node.getNextSibling();
        while (sibling != null) {
            if (sibling.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE
                    && sibling.getLocalName().equals(elemName)) {
                return (Element) sibling;
            }
            sibling = sibling.getNextSibling();
        }

        // not found
        return null;

    }

    /**
     * Finds and returns the next sibling node with the given name.
     */
    public static Element getNextSiblingElement(Node node,
            String elemNames[]) {

        // search for node
        Node sibling = node.getNextSibling();
        while (sibling != null) {
            if (sibling.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE) {
                for (String elemName : elemNames) {
                    if (sibling.getLocalName().equals(elemName)) {
                        return (Element) sibling;
                    }
                }
            }
            sibling = sibling.getNextSibling();
        }

        // not found
        return null;

    }

    /**
     * Finds and returns the next sibling node with the given name and attribute name, value pair. Since only
     * elements have attributes, the node returned will be of type Node.ELEMENT_NODE.
     */
    public static Element getNextSiblingElement(Node node, String elemName,
            String attrName, String attrValue) {

        // search for node
        Node sibling = node.getNextSibling();
        while (sibling != null) {
            if (sibling.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE) {
                Element element = (Element) sibling;
                if (element.getLocalName().equals(elemName)
                        && element.getAttribute(attrName).equals(attrValue)) {
                    return element;
                }
            }
            sibling = sibling.getNextSibling();
        }

        // not found
        return null;

    }

    /**
     * returns local name of this element if not null, otherwise returns the name of the node
     */
    public static String getLocalName(Node node) {
        String name = node.getLocalName();
        return name != null ? name : node.getLocalName();
    }
}

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