<a>
<b>
<c type="lol">
<d>1</d>
<f>2</f>
</c>
<c type="lol">
<d>2</d>
<f>2</f>
</c>
<c type="h">
<d>v</d>
<f>d</f>
</c>
</b>
</a>
DocumentBuilderFactory dBFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder dB = dBFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
Document doc = dB.parse(url);
System.out.println("Root element :" + doc.getDocumentElement().getNodeName());
how can is get the nodelist of child node i.e i need to get the child nodes of "b"(nodelist which has 3 "c" nodes )..
You could use jOOX and then write
List<Element> elements = $(doc).find("b").children().get();
Or with DOM:
// Beware, this list also contains the blank text nodes around the <c/> elements,
// if your document is formatted.
NodeList list = doc.getElementsByTagName("b").item(0).getChildNodes();
UPDATE: If you want to further traverse your DOM document (i.e. get the child nodes of "c"
as you mention in your comments, then I really recommend jOOX:
// This will find all "c" elements, and then return all children thereof
$(doc).find("c").children();
// This will return "d", "f", "d", "f", "d", "f":
List<String> tags = $(doc).find("c").children().tags();
// This will return "1", "2", "2, "2", "v", "d":
List<String> texts = $(doc).find("c").children().texts();
Doing the same with DOM will become quite verbose:
List<Element> elements = new ArrayList<Element>();
List<String> tags = new ArrayList<String>();
List<String> texts = new ArrayList<String>();
NodeList c = doc.getElementsByTagName("c");
for (int i = 0; i < c.getLength(); i++) {
if (c.item(i) instanceof Element) {
NodeList children = c.item(i).getChildNodes();
for (int j = 0; j < children.getLength(); j++) {
if (children.item(j) instanceof Element) {
elements.add((Element) children.item(j));
tags.add(((Element) children.item(j)).getTagName());
texts.add(children.item(j).getTextContent());
}
}
}
}
UPDATE 2 (please be more specific with your future questions...!): With XPath, do this:
XPath xpath = XPathFactory.newInstance().newXPath();
XPathExpression expression = xpath.compile("//c/*");
NodeList nodes = (NodeList) expression.evaluate(
document.getDocumentElement(), XPathConstants.NODESET);