Remove Empty Nodes From Dom document

Tuesday, 27 July 2010 06:11

// Snippit to remove an empty node from the document.
// Node node contains the node (or whole DOM document) from which you want to remove.
// String nameToRemove is the name of the Node you want to remove.



	private static void removeEmptyNodes(Node node, String nameToRemove) {

		NodeList nodeList = node.getChildNodes();

		for(int i=0; i < nodeList.getLength(); i++){

			Node childNode = nodeList.item(i);

			String nodeName = childNode.getNodeName(); 

			if(nodeName.equals(nameToRemove) && childNode.getTextContent().equals("")){

				childNode.getParentNode().removeChild(childNode);

				i--;



			}

			removeEmptyNodes(childNode, nameToRemove);

		}

	}