Stripping off XML tags

Question

Hi,
Can someone help me with providing some code on how to strip off the XML tags in an XML file like the following:
<?xml version = '1.0'?>
<!--<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="XYZ.xsl"?> -->
<ROWSET>
<ROW num="1">
<PRODUCT_NAME>ABC</PRODUCT_NAME_NAME>
</ROW>
<ROW num="2">
All I want to get back is whatever in between <product_name>. Basically, all the tags with <..> I need to get rid off from this XML file.
Does anybody know if I can use regular expressions in java? That way, would it be easier not to use parsers?
Please provide me ideas, sources, examples, etc.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I worked on the solution, but, it's coming up with a blank list.
Any solution to resolve this!
Here's the code:
public class Test extends JFrame
     JList list;
     JScrollPane listContainer;
     public Test()
          setSize(300, 300);
          setVisible(true);
          setTitle("ProdList");
          initialize();
     // domParse();     // Getting error- how do i call this function?
     public void initialize()
          list = new JList(new DefaultListModel()); // Set the initial model
          listContainer = new JScrollPane(list);
          listContainer.setSize(new Dimension(200, 200));
          getContentPane().setLayout(new BorderLayout());
          getContentPane().add(listContainer, "Center");
          validate(); // Validate the screen
     // public void domParse(String url)
     public void domParse(String url)
          DocumentBuilder parser;
          DocumentBuilderFactory factory =
                    DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
          try {
                    parser = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
                    Document doc = parser.parse(url);
          NodeList product_names = doc.getElementsByTagName("PRODUCT_NAME");
          if(product_names!=null)
          for(int i=0;i<product_names.getLength();++i)
               // get all child nodes of a <product_name> - node
               NodeList product_name_children=product_names.item(i).getChildNodes();
               // and display contents of text nodes
          for(int j=0;j<product_name_children.getLength();++j)
               Node node=product_name_children.item(j);
          //if(node.getNodeType()==Node.TEXT_NODE)
               //System.out.println("element <"+product_names.item(i).getNodeName()+">'s text=["+node.getNodeValue()+"]");
          else
               System.out.println("no element <PRODUCT_NAME> found");
          } catch (Exception e)
          // e.printStackTrace();
          static public void main(String[] args)
               Test x=new Test();
               x.domParse("Test.xml");