Java XML Child Remove All removeAllChildren(final Element element)

Description

Simply removes all child nodes.

License

Apache License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
element	a parameter

Declaration

public static void removeAllChildren(final Element element) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/**/*w w  w  .j  a  va  2  s  . c  om*/
 *  Copyright 2012 Sven Ewald
 *
 *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 *  You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 *  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 *  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 *  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 *  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 *  limitations under the License.
 */

import org.w3c.dom.Element;

import org.w3c.dom.Node;

public class Main {
    /**
     * Simply removes all child nodes.
     *
     * @param element
     */
    public static void removeAllChildren(final Element element) {
        for (Node n = element.getFirstChild(); n != null; n = element.getFirstChild()) {
            element.removeChild(n);
        }
    }
}

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