Element testElement = document.createElement("testElement"); Element childElement1 = document.createElement("childElement1"); Element childElement2 = document.createElement("childElement2"); testElement.appendChild(childElement1); testElement.appendChild(childElement2); Element secondChild = testElement.getChildNodes().item(1);
Element parentElement = document.createElement("parentElement"); Element childElement1 = document.createElement("childElement1"); Element childElement2 = document.createElement("childElement2"); parentElement.appendChild(childElement1); parentElement.appendChild(childElement2); NodeList childNodes = parentElement.getChildNodes(); for (int i = 0; i < childNodes.getLength(); i++) { Element child = (Element) childNodes.item(i); System.out.println(child.getNodeName()); }This code will print out the node name of each child of the "parentElement" element. Package library: The getChild method is part of the org.w3c.dom package, which is included in the Java standard library.