Java HTML / XML How to - Get XML node names

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Question

We would like to know how to get XML node names.

Answer

//from  w  w  w  .  j  ava 2 s .c o m
import java.io.StringReader;

import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;

import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;

public class Main {
  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    String xml = "<a><o><u>ok</u></o></a>";
    Document doc = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder()
        .parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(xml)));
    NodeList nl = doc.getElementsByTagName("*");
    for (int i = 0; i < nl.getLength(); i++) {
      System.out.println("name is : " + nl.item(i).getNodeName());
    }
  }
}

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