Java XML First Child Element getFirstChildElement(Element e)

Description

Get the first child of e which is an element, or null if there is no such element.

License

Open Source License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
e	e

Return

n

Declaration

public static Element getFirstChildElement(Element e) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/**/*w  w  w.  j  a v  a2  s.  c o m*/
 * Copyright 2000-2006 DFKI GmbH.
 * All Rights Reserved.  Use is subject to license terms.
 *
 * This file is part of MARY TTS.
 *
 * MARY TTS is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation, version 3 of the License.
 *
 * 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 Lesser General Public License for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
 * along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 *
 */

import org.w3c.dom.Element;

import org.w3c.dom.Node;

public class Main {
    /**
     * Get the first child of <code>e</code> which is an element, or <code>null</code> if there is no such element.
     * 
     * @param e
     *            e
     * @return n
     */
    public static Element getFirstChildElement(Element e) {
        Node n = e.getFirstChild();
        while (n != null && n.getNodeType() != Node.ELEMENT_NODE) {
            n = n.getNextSibling();
        }
        // Now n is either null or an Element
        return (Element) n;
    }
}

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