Getting Elements with DOM
import org.apache.xerces.parsers.DOMParser; import org.xml.sax.SAXException; import java.io.IOException; import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.w3c.dom.NodeList; import org.w3c.dom.Node; public class MainClass { public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException, SAXException { DOMParser parser = new DOMParser(); parser.parse("games.xml"); Document dom = parser.getDocument(); NodeList games = dom.getElementsByTagName("game"); for (int i = 0; i < games.getLength(); i++) { Node aNode = games.item(i); System.out.println(textNode.getFirstChild().getNodeValue()); } } }