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Gets all child XML elements.

Demo Code

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//package com.java2s;
import java.util.ArrayList;

import java.util.List;

import org.w3c.dom.Element;

import org.w3c.dom.Node;

public class Main {
    /**
     * Gets all child elements.
     * 
     * @param node the node whose children should be returned
     * @return list of elements or empty list if no subelements found
     */
    public static List<Element> getChildElements(Node node) {

        ArrayList<Element> ret = new ArrayList<Element>(5);
        for (Node child = node.getFirstChild(); child != null; child = child
                .getNextSibling()) {

            if (child.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE) {
                ret.add((Element) child);
            }
        }
        return ret;
    }
}

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