Java XML First Child Element getFirstChildElement(Element root)

Description

getFirstChildElement purpose.

License

Open Source License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
root	The root element to look for children in.

Return

The element if a child was found, the null otherwise.

Declaration

public static Element getFirstChildElement(Element root) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/* (c) 2014 Open Source Geospatial Foundation - all rights reserved
 * (c) 2001 - 2013 OpenPlans/*w w w  . j  ava  2 s. c  om*/
 * This code is licensed under the GPL 2.0 license, available at the root
 * application directory.
 */

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

public class Main {
    /**
     * getFirstChildElement purpose.
     *
     * <p>
     * Used to help with XML manipulations. Returns the element which
     * represents the first child.
     * </p>
     *
     * @param root The root element to look for children in.
     *
     * @return The element if a child was found, the null otherwise.
     */
    public static Element getFirstChildElement(Element root) {
        Node child = root.getFirstChild();

        while (child != null) {
            if (child.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE) {
                return (Element) child;
            }

            child = child.getNextSibling();
        }

        return null;
    }
}

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