XML in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

Name

getElementsByTagName: name

Synopsis

Returns a NodeList of all descendant Element nodes whose tagName attribute matches the given name parameter. The nodes are returned in the same order in which they would be encountered in a preorder traversal of the document tree. A preorder traversal conforms to the order in which the XML elements appear in the source document.

Argument

name: DOMString

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

Java binding

public NodeList getElementsByTagName(String name);

Java example

// Find every address element in the document
Element elem = doc.getDocumentElement( );
NodeList nlAddrs = elem.getElementsByTagName("address");