XML in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

Name

getElementsByTagName: tagName

Synopsis

This function returns a list of Element nodes from the current document whose tagName attribute matches the given tagName parameter. The nodes are returned in the same order in which they appear in the source document.

Argument

tagName: DOMString

The name of the tag to use as a filter. The special name * matches any tag.

Java binding

public NodeList getElementsByTagName(String tagName);

Java example

// Get a list of all phone numbers in the document
NodeList nl = doc.getElementsByTagName("phone_number");