javascript - need suggestions with getting specific elements from container

[sv13]

hi,
here is what i want to do:

e.g.

<div id="container">
	<h1>text</h1>
	<p>text</p>
	<p>text</p>
	<p>text</p>
	<p>text</p>
	<p>text</p>
	<random tag></<random tag>>
	.
	.
	.
	<h1>text</h1>
	<p>text</p>
	<p>text</p>
	.
	.
	.
</div>

i want to get list of all h1 and p, but i need to preserve order e.g h1pppppppph1ppppph1pp,
i can do this by getting all elements and then check if element.tagName == "h1" but this way i will check hundreds of elements that i dont need while getting only few h1 and p, is there a way to optimize it, or maybe better approach ?

[PeejAvery]

You are correct about the method, but I think you are confused as to how easy, and few lines of code, it is.

var output = "";
var elms = document.getElementsByTagName("*");
for (var i = 0; i < elms.length; i++) {
  if (elms[i].tagName == "h1") {output += "h1"}
  if (elms[i].tagName == "p") {output += "p"}
}
alert(output);

[sv13]

first and last optimization - skip some for loop iterations -when i am sure i wont omit h1 or p - DONE