Removing All the Attributes in a DOM Element
import java.io.File; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory; import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.w3c.dom.Element; import org.w3c.dom.NamedNodeMap; public class Main { public static void main(String[] argv) throws Exception{ DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); factory.setValidating(true); factory.setExpandEntityReferences(false); Document doc = factory.newDocumentBuilder().parse(new File("filename")); Element element = doc.getElementById("key1"); NamedNodeMap attrs = element.getAttributes(); while (attrs.getLength() > 0) { attrs.removeNamedItem(attrs.item(0).getNodeName()); } } }