Java tutorial
import java.io.StringReader; import java.io.StringWriter; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory; import javax.xml.transform.OutputKeys; import javax.xml.transform.Transformer; import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory; import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource; import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult; import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.w3c.dom.NodeList; import org.xml.sax.InputSource; public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { DocumentBuilder db = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder(); Document doc = db.parse(new InputSource( new StringReader("<emp><empname><firstName></firstName><lastName></lastName></empname></emp>"))); NodeList customerNodes = doc.getElementsByTagName("empname"); for (int i = 0; i < customerNodes.getLength(); i++) { NodeList children = customerNodes.item(i).getChildNodes(); for (int j = 0; j < children.getLength(); j++) { String childNode = children.item(j).getNodeName(); if (childNode.equalsIgnoreCase("firstName")) { children.item(j).setTextContent(String.valueOf("John")); } else if (childNode.equalsIgnoreCase("lastName")) { children.item(j).setTextContent(String.valueOf("Doe")); } } } TransformerFactory tf = TransformerFactory.newInstance(); Transformer transformer = tf.newTransformer(); transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.OMIT_XML_DECLARATION, "yes"); StringWriter writer = new StringWriter(); transformer.transform(new DOMSource(doc), new StreamResult(writer)); System.out.println(writer.getBuffer().toString()); } }