package com.test; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder; import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException; import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.w3c.dom.NodeList; import org.w3c.dom.Node; import org.w3c.dom.Element; import org.xml.sax.SAXException; import java.io.File; import java.io.IOException; public class XMLRead { public static void main(String argv[]) throws ParserConfigurationException, SAXException, IOException { File fXmlFile = new File(Absolute Path of XML file); DocumentBuilderFactory dbFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); DocumentBuilder dBuilder = dbFactory.newDocumentBuilder(); Document doc = dBuilder.parse(fXmlFile); doc.getDocumentElement().normalize(); System.out.println("Root element " + doc.getDocumentElement().getNodeName()); NodeList nodeList=doc.getElementsByTagName("*"); for (int count = 0; count < nodeList.getLength(); count++) { Node tempNode = nodeList.item(count); // make sure it's element node. if (tempNode.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE) { // get node name and value System.out.println("\nNode Name =" + tempNode.getNodeName()); // + " [OPEN]"); System.out.println("Node Value =" + tempNode.getTextContent()); System.out.println("Node Name =" + tempNode.getNodeName()); // + " [CLOSE]"); } } } } Sample XML File : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <addresses xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation='test.xsd'> <address> <name>Joe Tester</name> <street>Baker street 5</street> </address> </addresses> Output: Node Name =address Node Name =name Node Value =Joe Tester Node Name =name Node Name =street Node Value =Baker street 5 Node Name =street