Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import org.w3c.dom.Element; import org.w3c.dom.Node; import org.w3c.dom.NodeList; public class Main { public static String[] getStringValuesForXMLTag(Element xmlElement, String key) { NodeList nl = xmlElement.getElementsByTagName(key); if (nl.getLength() > 0) { String[] output = new String[nl.getLength()]; for (int i = 0; i < nl.getLength(); i++) { Node node = nl.item(i).getFirstChild(); if (node != null) { output[i] = node.getNodeValue().trim(); } } return output; } return null; } }