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Asked: 2026-05-28T04:39:13+00:00

I want to use DOM4j for parsing xml file in Java. I have this

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I want to use DOM4j for parsing xml file in Java.

I have this XML as an example: 

<request method="POST" url="/devices/test/planner" body="*">
  <response statusCode="200">
    <header>
      <headerParameters>
        <headerParameter name="Content-Type">
          Content-Type=application/xml
        </headerParameter>
      </headerParameters>
    </header>
    <body>booking created!</body>
  </response>
</request>

Given the request (first node) node, how can I extract the child nodes data?

For example getting the <response> status code, or the <headerParameter> name attributes?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Assuming you get the “request” node as an Element then you can do something like this:

    Element response = (Element) request.elements().get(0);
int statusCode = Integer.parseInt(response.attribute("statusCode"));

    If you want to traverse the children recursively then you’ll have to write iterative (or recursive) code to visit each element in the list returned by the elements() method.

    [Edit] You can also use XPath to extract the specific items you’re looking for:

    int statusCode = Integer.parseInt(
    request.selectSingleNode("response/@statusCode").getText());
String firstHeaderName =
    request.selectSingleNode(
        "response/headerParameters/headerParameter/@name").getText();
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