XML in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

Name

firstChild: Node

Synopsis

Points to the head of the linked list of children of this node. If no child nodes exist, it returns null.

Java binding

public Node getFirstChild( );

Java example

// List the contents of a node
for (Node nd = ndDump.getFirstChild( ); nd != null;
     nd = nd.getNextSibling( )) {
    if (nd.getNodeValue( ) != null) {
        System.out.println(nd.getNodeValue( ));
    }
}