Java Swing HTML findElementDown(final String name, final Element parent)

Description

find the first occurrence of an Element in the element tree below a given Element

License

Open Source License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
name	the name of the <code>Element</code> to search for
parent	the <code>Element</code> to start looking

Return

the found Element or null if none is found

Declaration

public static Element findElementDown(final String name, final Element parent) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*//from  w w w.j  ava  2  s  . c  om
 * SimplyHTML, a word processor based on Java, HTML and CSS
 * Copyright (C) 2002 Ulrich Hilger
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
 * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
 * of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 *
 * This program 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 General Public License for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
 * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.
 */

import javax.swing.text.Element;
import javax.swing.text.ElementIterator;

public class Main {
    /**
     * find the first occurrence of an <code>Element</code> in the
     * element tree below a given <code>Element</code>
     *
     * @param name the name of the <code>Element</code> to search for
     * @param parent the <code>Element</code> to start looking
     *
     * @return the found <code>Element</code> or null if none is found
     */
    public static Element findElementDown(final String name, final Element parent) {
        Element foundElement = null;
        final ElementIterator eli = new ElementIterator(parent);
        Element thisElement = eli.first();
        while (thisElement != null && foundElement == null) {
            if (thisElement.getName().equalsIgnoreCase(name)) {
                foundElement = thisElement;
            }
            thisElement = eli.next();
        }
        return foundElement;
    }
}

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