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how to get only direct child node by tag name

843834Feb 20 2006 — edited Feb 20 2006

Hi,

I am using the method

getElementsByTagName("")....

This works except the problem is my XML schema/file has some recursive tags,

I have a <question> element which can have an <answer> or another <question>.

When parsing the XML file I want to be able to get a list of sub questions for a given question, but only if it is a direct child of that question.

So if i have:

<question>
  <text>q1</text>
  <question>
    <text>q2</text>
    <question>
      <text>q3</text>
    </question>
  </question>
</question>

If I'm dealing with the "q1" question I want only "q2" but not "q3". Whereas getElementsByTagName will take both q2 and q3. How can I achieve this.

Thanks

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