Java XML Element Get by Name getElementsByTagName(Element parent, String name, boolean localOnly)

Description

get Elements By Tag Name

License

Open Source License

Declaration

public static List<Element> getElementsByTagName(Element parent, String name, boolean localOnly) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*--------------------------------------------------------------------------
 * Copyright (c) 2004, 2006 OpenMethods, LLC
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 *
 * Contributors:/*  w  ww .j  a v a 2  s .  co  m*/
 *    Trip Gilman (OpenMethods), Lonnie G. Pryor (OpenMethods),
 *    Vincent Pruitt (OpenMethods)
 *    
 *    T.D. Barnes (OpenMethods) - initial API and implementation
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;

public class Main {
    public static List<Element> getElementsByTagName(Element parent, String name, boolean localOnly) {
        List<Element> ret = new ArrayList<Element>();
        if (!localOnly) {
            NodeList elementList = parent.getElementsByTagName(name);
            for (int i = 0; i < elementList.getLength(); i++) {
                ret.add((Element) elementList.item(i));
            }
        } else {
            NodeList childList = parent.getChildNodes();
            for (int i = 0; i < childList.getLength(); i++) {
                if (childList.item(i).getNodeType() != Node.ELEMENT_NODE)
                    continue;
                Element child = (Element) childList.item(i);
                if (child.getTagName().equals(name))
                    ret.add(child);
            }
        }
        return ret;
    }
}

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