Básicamente tienes dos formas de iterar sobre todos los elementos:
1. Uso de recursividad (la forma más común creo):
public static void main(String[] args) throws SAXException, IOException,
ParserConfigurationException, TransformerException {
DocumentBuilderFactory docBuilderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory
.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder docBuilder = docBuilderFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
Document document = docBuilder.parse(new File("document.xml"));
doSomething(document.getDocumentElement());
}
public static void doSomething(Node node) {
// do something with the current node instead of System.out
System.out.println(node.getNodeName());
NodeList nodeList = node.getChildNodes();
for (int i = 0; i < nodeList.getLength(); i++) {
Node currentNode = nodeList.item(i);
if (currentNode.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE) {
//calls this method for all the children which is Element
doSomething(currentNode);
}
}
}
2. Evitar la repetición usando el método getElementsByTagName()
con *
como parámetro:
public static void main(String[] args) throws SAXException, IOException,
ParserConfigurationException, TransformerException {
DocumentBuilderFactory docBuilderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory
.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder docBuilder = docBuilderFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
Document document = docBuilder.parse(new File("document.xml"));
NodeList nodeList = document.getElementsByTagName("*");
for (int i = 0; i < nodeList.getLength(); i++) {
Node node = nodeList.item(i);
if (node.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE) {
// do something with the current element
System.out.println(node.getNodeName());
}
}
}
Creo que estas formas son eficientes.
Espero que esto ayude.
Invocación recursiva de Node.getChildNodes? http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/org/w3c/dom/Node.html#getChildNodes%28%29 –