Java tutorial
import java.io.StringReader; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory; import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.w3c.dom.Element; import org.xml.sax.InputSource; public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { String xml = "<xml xmlns:log='http://sample.com'><test log:writer='someWriter'/></xml>"; StringReader xmlReader = new StringReader(xml); DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); factory.setNamespaceAware(true); DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder(); Document doc = builder.parse(new InputSource(xmlReader)); Element currentNode = (Element) doc.getElementsByTagName("test").item(0); String attributeValue = currentNode.getAttributes().getNamedItemNS("http://sample.com", "writer") .getNodeValue(); System.out.println("Attribute value is " + attributeValue); xmlReader.close(); } }