Java XML Element Sibling getPreviousSiblingElement(Element elem)

Description

get Previous Sibling Element

License

Open Source License

Declaration

public static Element getPreviousSiblingElement(Element elem) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*******************************************************************************
* Copyright (c) 2016 Red Hat, Inc./*from  w ww.  j  a v  a2 s. co m*/
* Distributed under license by Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved.
* This program is 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:
* Red Hat, Inc. - initial API and implementation
* William Collins punkhornsw@gmail.com
******************************************************************************/

import org.w3c.dom.Element;

import org.w3c.dom.Node;

public class Main {
    public static Element getPreviousSiblingElement(Element elem) {
        if (elem == null) {
            return null;
        }

        for (Node n = elem.getPreviousSibling(); n != null; n = n.getPreviousSibling()) {
            if (n.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE) {
                return (Element) n;
            }
        }

        return null;
    }
}

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2. getNextSiblingElement(Node node)
3. getNextSiblingElementByTagName(Element e, String name)
4. getNextSiblingElementWithName(Element elem, String name)
5. getPrecedingSiblings(Element element, String namespaceUri)
6. getPreviousSiblingElementByTagName(Element e, String name)
7. getPrevSibling(Element e)
8. getPrevSibling(Element element)
9. getSiblingElement(Element e, String name)