[jdom-interest] How to [easily] deal with optional children?

[Jehoiada Bernard]

Hi,

Givent the following element declaration:
    <!ELEMENT Request (JobCreationRequest | JobModificationRequest | JobEstimationRequest | JobControlRequest | ServiceControlRequest)?>

A Request element can have one of the listed children. Is there a way to get the child element without attempting getChild("JobCreationRequest") then if that fails try getChild("JobModificationRequest") an so on.

What I really want to do is get the first (only) child of the Request element then use element.getName() to determine which one actually appears in the document.

Thanks

Jeddy
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