Thanks for the reply. The problem is solved. I used dom parser to acieve this. DocumentBuilderFactory domFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); domFactory.setNamespaceAware(true); DocumentBuilder builder; try { new File(destinationFolder).mkdir(); builder = domFactory.newDocumentBuilder(); File fileDirectory = new File(fileDir); //System.out.println("filedir= "+fileDir); String files[] = fileDirectory.list(); for (String fileName:files) { String xmlData=""; Document doc; doc = builder.parse(fileDir+fileName); doc.getDocumentElement ().normalize (); String rootNode = doc.getDocumentElement().getNodeName(); NodeList bookslist = ...