Access elements from document with namespaces : Namespace « XML « Java Tutorial

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import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;

import org.w3c.dom.Attr;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;

public class Main {
  public static void main(String[] argv) throws Exception {

    DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
    factory.setNamespaceAware(true);
    factory.setValidating(true);

    DocumentBuilder loader = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
    Document document = loader.parse("sample.xml");

    String docNS = "http://www.my-company.com";

    Element order = document.getDocumentElement();
    Attr date = order.getAttributeNodeNS(docNS, "date");
    NodeList children = order.getElementsByTagNameNS(docNS, "item");

  }
}