Java XML First Child Element getFirstChild(Element parent, String name)

Description

get First Child

License

Open Source License

Declaration

public static Element getFirstChild(Element parent, String name) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/******************************************************************************* 
 * Copyright (c) 2007-2012 Red Hat, Inc. 
 * 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 
 * /*from   w w  w.j a  va2s  . co  m*/
 * Contributors: 
 *     Red Hat, Inc. - initial API and implementation 
 ******************************************************************************/

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

public class Main {
    public static Element getFirstChild(Element parent, String name) {
        NodeList nl = parent.getChildNodes();
        for (int i = 0; i < nl.getLength(); i++) {
            Node n = nl.item(i);
            if (n.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE && n.getNodeName().equals(name)) {
                return (Element) n;
            }
        }
        return null;
    }
}

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