Children nodes

import java.io.StringReader;
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import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;

import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;

public class Main {
  public static void main(String[] argv) throws Exception {
    InputSource is = new InputSource();
    is.setCharacterStream(new StringReader(xmlRecords));
    
    DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
    DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
    
    Document doc = db.parse(is);
    
    NodeList list = doc.getChildNodes();
    for (int i = 0; i < list.getLength(); i++) {
      if (list.item(i) instanceof Element) {
        Element root = (Element) list.item(i);
        System.out.println(root.getNodeName());
        break;
      }
    }
  }
  static String xmlRecords = 
      "<data>" +
      "  <employee>" +
      "    <name>Tom</name>"+ 
      "    <title>Manager</title>" +
      "  </employee>" +
      "  <employee>" +
      "    <name>Jerry</name>"+ 
      "    <title>Programmer</title>" +
      "  </employee>" +
      "</data>";
}