Get an attribute of a dom node

Question

I am trying to get an attribute of an xml node example:

<Car name="Test"> </Car> 

I want to grab the name attribute of the car node.

DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();           Document doc = db.parse(configFile); doc.getDocumentElement().normalize();            NodeList layerConfigList = doc.getElementsByTagName("CAR"); Node node = layerConfigList.item(0); // get the name attribute out of the node. 

this is where i get stuck because the only method that looks like i can use is getAttributes() with returns a NamedNodeMap and im not sure how to extract it from that.

Answer 1

Your node is an Element so you just have to

Element e = (Element)node; String name = e.getAttribute("name");