Traverse the DOM tree using TreeWalker in Java

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import java.io.StringReader;

import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;

import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.traversal.DocumentTraversal;
import org.w3c.dom.traversal.NodeFilter;
import org.w3c.dom.traversal.TreeWalker;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;

public class Main {
  
  public static void main(String[] argv) throws Exception {
    StringReader sr = new StringReader("<tag>java2s.com</tag>");
    DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
    DocumentBuilder loader = factory.newDocumentBuilder();

    Document document = loader.parse(new InputSource(sr));

    DocumentTraversal traversal = (DocumentTraversal) document;

    TreeWalker walker = traversal.createTreeWalker(document.getDocumentElement(),
        NodeFilter.SHOW_ELEMENT, null, true);

    traverseLevel(walker, "");


  }
  private static final void traverseLevel(TreeWalker walker, String indent) {
    Node parend = walker.getCurrentNode();
    System.out.println(indent + "- " + ((Element) parend).getTagName());

    for (Node n = walker.firstChild(); n != null; n = walker.nextSibling()) {
      traverseLevel(walker, indent + '\t');
    }
    walker.setCurrentNode(parend);
  }
}