Question

I have a node of DOM document. How can I remove all of its child nodes? For example:

<employee> 
     <one/>
     <two/>
     <three/>
 </employee>

Becomes:

   <employee>
   </employee>

I want to remove all child nodes of employee.

Answer 1

    public static void removeAll(Node node) 
    {
        for(Node n : node.getChildNodes())
        {
            if(n.hasChildNodes()) //edit to remove children of children
            {
              removeAll(n);
              node.removeChild(n);
            }
            else
              node.removeChild(n);
        }
    }
}

This will remove all the child elements of a Node by passing the employee node in.