Here you can find the source of printElements(Document dom)
public static String printElements(Document dom)
//package com.java2s; /*/* w w w . java 2 s . c o m*/ Copyright 2014 Michael K Martin This file is part of Civet. Civet is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Lesser GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. Civet 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 General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the Lesser GNU General Public License along with Civet. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ import java.util.HashSet; import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.w3c.dom.NamedNodeMap; import org.w3c.dom.Node; import org.w3c.dom.NodeList; public class Main { public static String printElements(Document dom) { if (dom == null) return null; StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer(); walkNodes(dom, sb, ""); return sb.toString(); } public static void walkNodes(Node nodeIn, StringBuffer sb, String sPad) { if (nodeIn == null) return; NamedNodeMap map = nodeIn.getAttributes(); if (map != null) for (int i = 0; i < map.getLength(); i++) { Node n = map.item(i); if (n.getNodeType() == Node.ATTRIBUTE_NODE) { sb.append(sPad + " Attribute:" + n.getNodeName() + " = " + n.getNodeValue() + '\n'); } } NodeList nodes = nodeIn.getChildNodes(); for (int i = 0; i < nodes.getLength(); i++) { Node n = nodes.item(i); if (n.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE) { sb.append(sPad + "Element: " + n.getNodeName() + '\n'); } if (n.getNodeType() == Node.TEXT_NODE) { sb.append(sPad + " Value: = " + n.getNodeValue() + '\n'); } if (n.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE) { walkNodes(n, sb, sPad + " "); } } } private static void walkNodes(Node nodeIn, HashSet<String> hElements) { if (nodeIn == null) return; NodeList nodes = nodeIn.getChildNodes(); for (int i = 0; i < nodes.getLength(); i++) { Node n = nodes.item(i); if (n.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE) { String sNodeName = n.getNodeName(); if (!hElements.contains(sNodeName)) hElements.add(sNodeName); walkNodes(n, hElements); } } } }