The Java Developers Almanac 1.4

e532. Visiting All the Elements in a DOM Document

    // Obtain an XML document; this method is implemented in
    // e510 The Quintessential Program to Create a DOM Document from an XML File
    Document doc = parseXmlFile("infilename.xml", false);
    
    // Get a list of all elements in the document
    NodeList list = doc.getElementsByTagName("*");
    for (int i=0; i<list.getLength(); i++) {
        // Get element
        Element element = (Element)list.item(i);
    }

Related Examples

e531. Getting a DOM Element by Id
e533. Changing the Name of a DOM Element

See also: Adding and Removing Nodes    Element Attributes    Getting Nodes    Text Nodes    XPath

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