DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder(); Document document = builder.parse(new File("people.xml")); NodeList persons = document.getElementsByTagName("person");
for (int i = 0; i < nodeList.getLength(); i++) { Node node = nodeList.item(i); if (node.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE && node.getNodeName().equals("image")) { node.getParentNode().removeChild(node); } }The org.w3c.dom NodeList interface is part of the Java package library, specifically in the javax.xml.xpath package.