Parse siblings in DOM

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

Hey Sai,
Thanx.
I believe I'm using the DOM parser. My code is very similar to this first program -'Reading the XML':
http://java.sun.com/webservices/docs/1.0/tutorial/doc/JAXPXSLT5.html
The article was quite enlightening:
As opposed to SAX, the DOM specification covers only the tree representation of the XML document. Instantiating and using the parser is not actually covered by DOM itself, and the specific implementation must be named directly in the application code. After the input document has been parsed, the resulting DOM tree can be retrieved from the parser using the getDocument function, which returns a Document instance. The Document interface extends the Node interface and represents the root node of the document. It is then used with the appropriate unmarshaller class, similar to the SAX case.
I'm probably using the DOM, cos I dont need to do anything more than get info about the nodes.
Why did u ask? So, where did I go wrong???
-s

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