Java XML Element Get getElementsByName(Element elem, String s)

Description

get all children of given type or empty list

License

Creative Commons License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
element	the element to search in
s	type/tag of children

Return

list of children of given type or empty, never null

Declaration

public static List<Element> getElementsByName(Element elem, String s) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
//License from project: Creative Commons License 

import java.util.ArrayList;

import java.util.List;

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

public class Main {
    /**/* w  w  w .ja v  a  2 s  .c  o  m*/
     * get all children of given type or empty list
     * 
     * @param element
     *           the element to search in
     * @param s
     *           type/tag of children
     * @return list of children of given type or empty, never null
     */
    public static List<Element> getElementsByName(Element elem, String s) {
        List<Element> ret = new ArrayList<Element>();
        for (Node child = elem.getFirstChild(); child != null; child = child
                .getNextSibling()) {
            if (child instanceof Element) {
                if (child.getNodeName().equals(s)) {
                    ret.add((Element) child);
                }
            }
        }
        return ret;
    }
}

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