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Asked: 2026-05-26T02:49:55+00:00

How do I replace text in an XML document using Java? Source: <body> <title>Home

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How do I replace text in an XML document using Java?

Source:

<body>
<title>Home Owners Agreement</title>
<p>The <b>good</b> thing about a Home Owners Agreement is that...</p>
</body>

Desired output:

<body>
<title>Home Owners Agreement</title>
<p>The <b>good</b> thing about a HOA is that...</p>
</body>

I only want text in <p> tags to be replaced. I tried the following:

replaceText(string term, string replaceWith, org.w3c.dom.Node p){
       p.setTextContent(p.getTextContent().replace(term, replaceWith));

}

The problem with the above code is that all the child nodes of p get lost.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Okay, I figured out the solution.

    The key to this is that you don’t want to replace the text of the actual node. There is a actually a child representation of just the text. I was able to accomplish what I needed with this code:

    private static void replace(Node root){
    if (root.getNodeType() == root.TEXT_NODE){
        root.setTextContent(root.getTextContent().replace("Home Owners Agreement", "HMO"));
    }
    for (int i = 0; i < root.getChildNodes().getLength(); i++){ 
        outputTextOfNode(root.getChildNodes().item(i));
    }
}
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