Java tutorial
import java.io.File; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory; import org.w3c.dom.Attr; import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.w3c.dom.Element; import org.w3c.dom.NamedNodeMap; public class Main { public static void main(String[] argv) throws Exception { DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); factory.setValidating(true); factory.setExpandEntityReferences(false); Document doc = factory.newDocumentBuilder().parse(new File("filename")); Element element = doc.getDocumentElement(); Element element2 = doc.createElement("newname"); NamedNodeMap attrs = element.getAttributes(); for (int i = 0; i < attrs.getLength(); i++) { Attr attr2 = (Attr) doc.importNode(attrs.item(i), true); element2.getAttributes().setNamedItem(attr2); } while (element.hasChildNodes()) { element2.appendChild(element.getFirstChild()); } element.getParentNode().replaceChild(element2, element); } }