JAXP DOM Reference

External

• Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Core Specification https://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-DOM-Level-3-Core-20040407/

Internal

• JAXP DOM

Overview

For an example of how to walk a DOM tree, see:

https://github.com/NovaOrdis/playground/tree/master/java/xml/dom-reading

Node

Node Types

A node type can be obtained with getNodeType() call, and it is one of the following:

Node's Text Content

To get the text a node contains, you need to look through the list of child nodes, ignoring entries that are of no concern and accumulating the text you find in TEXT nodes, CDATA nodes, and EntityRef nodes.