You could try use the dom4j API as follows
Element root = Document.getRootElement();
Element foo = root.element( "foo" );
or to navigate the document to find all <foo> elements you could use XPath
List foos = root.selectNodes( "//foo" );
James
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From: "Amber, Zhao Yuan Yuan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "bob mcwhirter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Silvain Piree" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 7:05 AM
Subject: RE: [dom4j-user] question about getElementsByTagName
> Hi,
>
> I want to get an element by TagName using:
>
> DOMElement.getElementsByTagName(String name)
>
> my problem is: if I use
>
> Element root = Document.getRootElement();
>
> I can only cast root to "DefaulElement",
> not "DomElement"(casting exception because "DefaultElement" is the default
> implementantion of Element in dom4j)
>
> because of this, I can not use root.getElementsByTagName("...");
>
>
> Can anyone tell me how to solve the problem?
>
>
> thanks,
> Amber
>
>
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