import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory; import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.w3c.dom.Element; import org.w3c.dom.NodeList; public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder(); Document dom = db.parse("data.xml"); Element docEle = dom.getDocumentElement(); NodeList nl = docEle.getElementsByTagName("staff"); if (nl != null && nl.getLength() > 0) { for (int i = 0; i < nl.getLength(); i++) { // get the employee element Element el = (Element) nl.item(i); String firstname = getTextValue(el, "firstname"); String lastname = getTextValue(el, "lastname"); String nickname = getTextValue(el, "nickname"); int salary = getIntValue(el, "salary"); System.out.println(firstname); System.out.println(lastname); System.out.println(nickname); System.out.println(salary); } } } private static String getTextValue(Element ele, String tagName) { String textVal = null; NodeList nl = ele.getElementsByTagName(tagName); if (nl != null && nl.getLength() > 0) { Element el = (Element) nl.item(0); textVal = el.getFirstChild().getNodeValue(); } return textVal; } private static int getIntValue(Element ele, String tagName) { return Integer.parseInt(getTextValue(ele, tagName)); } }