What is the role of the "continue" keyword in the following piece of JavaScript code?
<ol class="dp-xml" start="1">
 	<li class="alt">while (x !=0)</li>
 	<li class="">{</li>
 	<li class="alt">if(<span class="attribute">x</span> ==1)</li>
 	<li class="">continue;</li>
 	<li class="alt">else</li>
 	<li class="">       x++;</li>
 	<li class="alt">}</li>
</ol>