Android Utililty Methods XML Node Child Get

List of utility methods to do XML Node Child Get

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Description

The list of methods to do XML Node Child Get are organized into topic(s).

Method

StringgetChildTagValue(Node node, String tag)
get Child Tag Value 
Element element = (Element) node;
NodeList childrenWithTag = element.getElementsByTagName(tag)
        .item(0).getChildNodes();
Node valueNode = (Node) childrenWithTag.item(0);
return valueNode.getNodeValue();
StringgetChildText(Node n)
get Child Text 
StringBuffer str = new StringBuffer();
NodeList nl = n.getChildNodes();
for (int i = 0; i < nl.getLength(); i++) {
    Node c = nl.item(i);
    if (c.getNodeType() == Node.TEXT_NODE) {
        str.append(c.getNodeValue());
return str.toString();
ListgetChildren(Node node, String name)
get Children 
List<Node> children = new ArrayList<Node>();
NodeList nodes = node.getChildNodes();
if (nodes != null && nodes.getLength() >= 1) {
    for (int i = 0; i < nodes.getLength(); i++) {
        Node n = nodes.item(i);
        if (name.equals(n.getNodeName())) {
            children.add(n);
return children;
ListgetChildren(Node node, String name)
get Children 
List<Node> children = new ArrayList<Node>();
NodeList nodes = node.getChildNodes();
if (nodes != null && nodes.getLength() >= 1) {
    for (int i = 0; i < nodes.getLength(); i++) {
        Node n = nodes.item(i);
        if (name.equals(n.getNodeName())) {
            children.add(n);
return children;
ListgetChildren(Node node, String name)
get Children 
List<Node> children = new ArrayList<Node>();
NodeList nodes = node.getChildNodes();
if (nodes != null && nodes.getLength() > 0) {
    for (int i = 0; i < nodes.getLength(); i++) {
        Node n = nodes.item(i);
        if (name.equals(n.getNodeName())) {
            children.add(n);
return children;
ListgetChildrenOfName(Node node, String name)
get Children Of Name 
List<Node> res = new ArrayList<Node>();
NodeList childNodes = node.getChildNodes();
for (int i = 0; i < childNodes.getLength(); i++) {
    Node item = childNodes.item(i);
    String localName = item.getNodeName();
    if (name.equals(localName)) {
        res.add(item);
return res;
NodegetFirstChild(Node node, String namespace, String name)
Return the first child of a node, based on name/namespace. 
NodeList childNodes = node.getChildNodes();
for (int i = 0, l = childNodes.getLength(); i < l; i++) {
    Node child = childNodes.item(i);
    if (isInstance(child, namespace, name)) {
        return child;
return null;
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NodegetFirstChild(Node node, String xmlLocalName)
Returns the first child element with the given XML local name. 
String nsUri = node.getNamespaceURI();
for (Node child = node.getFirstChild(); child != null; child = child
        .getNextSibling()) {
    if (child.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE
            && nsUri.equals(child.getNamespaceURI())) {
        if (xmlLocalName == null
                || xmlLocalName.equals(child.getLocalName())) {
            return child;
...
NodegetFirstMatchingChildNode(Node node, String nodeName)
get First Matching Child Node 
return getFirstMatchingChildNode(node, nodeName, null, null);
NodegetFirstMatchingChildNode(Node node, String nodeName, String attributeName, List attributeValues)
get First Matching Child Node 
if (node == null || nodeName == null) {
    return null;
List<Node> nodes = getMatchingChildNodes(node, nodeName,
        attributeName, attributeValues);
return (nodes == null || nodes.isEmpty()) ? null : (Node) nodes
        .get(0);