parse siblings in DOM

[S lakum]

Hi,
HELP!!!
I went through all the possible help code from the net which tells me how to access the value/child of a tag.
But what I need is to access the column values for each table. There are several tables in this xml file. So, I search for the table name through getElementsByTagName(), then I need to parse for the column-names. I'm not able to make it work with getNextSibling().
<table-name>hist_client</table-name>
<data-element>
<column-name>camp_id</column-name>
<column-name>ccr_id</column-name>
<column-name>record_id</column-name>
<column-name>record_num</column-name>
</data-element>
-thanx

[Dan Drillich]

The method getElementsByTagName() returns a node list.
You can iterate through it like -

NodeList l = doc.getElementsByTagName("column-name");
  int i = 0;
  while (i < l.getLength() ) {
Node n = l.item(i);
NodeList l2 = n.getChildNodes();
int j = 0;
while (j < l2.getLength() ) {
Node n2 = l2.item(j);
System.out.println("Inside Text: " + n2.getNodeValue());
j++;
}
i++;
  }
  

It returns -
Inside Text: camp_id
Inside Text: ccr_id
Inside Text: record_id
Inside Text: record_num
Isn't it what you want? Why do you need to use the getNextSibling() method?
Cheers,
Dan

[S lakum]

Hey Dan,
Thanx for the response.
What I'm trying to do is to read column-names from various tables. So, given a table-name, I just want it's column-names. That's why I'm searching for tagname 'table-name'
-sunitha