Here you can find the source of removeChildren(Node node)
public static void removeChildren(Node node)
//package com.java2s; /******************************************************************************* * Copyright (c) 2007 Exadel, Inc. and Red Hat, Inc. * Distributed under license by Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved. * This program is made available under the terms of the * Eclipse Public License v1.0 which accompanies this distribution, * and is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html * * Contributors://from w w w . jav a2 s . co m * Exadel, Inc. and Red Hat, Inc. - initial API and implementation ******************************************************************************/ import org.w3c.dom.Node; import org.w3c.dom.NodeList; public class Main { public static void removeChildren(Node node) { NodeList children = node.getChildNodes(); if (children != null) { int len = children.getLength(); for (int i = len - 1; i >= 0; i--) { node.removeChild(children.item(i)); } } } }