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.TreeWalker; 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; TreeWalker walker = traversal.createTreeWalker(document.getDocumentElement(), NodeFilter.SHOW_ELEMENT, null, true); traverseLevel(walker, ""); } private static final void traverseLevel(TreeWalker walker, String indent) { Node parend = walker.getCurrentNode(); System.out.println(indent + "- " + ((Element) parend).getTagName()); for (Node n = walker.firstChild(); n != null; n = walker.nextSibling()) { traverseLevel(walker, indent + '\t'); } walker.setCurrentNode(parend); } }