Java tutorial
import java.io.StringReader; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory; import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.w3c.dom.Element; import org.w3c.dom.Node; import org.w3c.dom.traversal.DocumentTraversal; import org.w3c.dom.traversal.NodeFilter; import org.w3c.dom.traversal.NodeIterator; import org.xml.sax.InputSource; public class Main { public static String getXMLData() { return "<a><person number='' dept=''><name>myName</name></person></a>"; } public static void main(String[] argv) throws Exception { DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); Document document = factory.newDocumentBuilder().parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(getXMLData()))); DocumentTraversal traversal = (DocumentTraversal) document; NodeIterator iterator = traversal.createNodeIterator(document.getDocumentElement(), NodeFilter.SHOW_ELEMENT, null, true); for (Node n = iterator.nextNode(); n != null; n = iterator.nextNode()) { System.out.println("Element: " + ((Element) n).getTagName()); } } }