diff --git a/magnolia-core/src/main/java/info/magnolia/jcr/util/NodeUtil.java b/magnolia-core/src/main/java/info/magnolia/jcr/util/NodeUtil.java
index 2565216..7235fd3 100644
--- a/magnolia-core/src/main/java/info/magnolia/jcr/util/NodeUtil.java
+++ b/magnolia-core/src/main/java/info/magnolia/jcr/util/NodeUtil.java
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ import java.util.Collection;
 import java.util.Iterator;
 import java.util.LinkedHashSet;
 import java.util.List;
+import java.util.NoSuchElementException;
 
 import javax.jcr.Node;
 import javax.jcr.NodeIterator;
@@ -57,10 +58,13 @@ import javax.jcr.RepositoryException;
 import javax.jcr.Session;
 import javax.jcr.nodetype.NodeType;
 import javax.jcr.nodetype.NodeTypeManager;
+import javax.jcr.query.Row;
+import javax.jcr.query.RowIterator;
 
 import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
 import org.apache.jackrabbit.JcrConstants;
 import org.apache.jackrabbit.commons.iterator.FilteringNodeIterator;
+import org.apache.jackrabbit.commons.iterator.NodeIteratorAdapter;
 import org.apache.jackrabbit.commons.predicate.NodeTypePredicate;
 import org.apache.jackrabbit.commons.predicate.Predicate;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
@@ -760,6 +764,30 @@ public class NodeUtil {
         };
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Filters rows of result set from query by provided selector and returns such nodes in the NodeIterator. Example of such query would be
+     * <i>SELECT page.* FROM [mgnl:page] AS page WHERE page.title like 'something%'</i>. Selector in this query is <i>page</i>
+     * 
+     * @param iterator RowIterator from the result set of executed query
+     * @param selector Selector used in the query to identify nodes
+     * @return NodeIterator containing only nodes identified by the selector
+     */
+    public static NodeIterator filterParentNodeType(RowIterator iterator, final String selector) throws RepositoryException {
+        return new NodeIteratorAdapter(iterator) {
+            @Override
+            public Node nextNode() throws NoSuchElementException {
+                Row row = (Row) next();
+                try {
+                    return row.getNode(selector);
+                } catch (RepositoryException e) {
+                    // no way to pass a root cause to NSEE
+                    log.debug(e.getMessage(), e);
+                    throw new NoSuchElementException(e.getMessage());
+                }
+            }
+        };
+    }
+
     public static Collection<Node> getCollectionFromNodeIterator(NodeIterator iterator){
         Collection<Node> nodeCollection = new LinkedHashSet<Node>(150);
         while(iterator.hasNext()){