Here you can find the source of removeAllChildrenNotElement(Element parentElem)
public static void removeAllChildrenNotElement(Element parentElem)
//package com.java2s; /*/*from w w w . j a v a 2s .com*/ ItsNat Java Web Application Framework Copyright (C) 2007-2011 Jose Maria Arranz Santamaria, Spanish citizen This software is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ import org.w3c.dom.Element; import org.w3c.dom.Node; public class Main { public static void removeAllChildrenNotElement(Element parentElem) { Node node = parentElem.getFirstChild(); while (node != null) { if (node.getNodeType() != Node.ELEMENT_NODE) { Node next = node.getNextSibling(); parentElem.removeChild(node); node = next; } else { node = node.getNextSibling(); } } } }