Remove all child nodes of a node

Question

I have a node of DOM document. How can I remove all of its child nodes? For example:

<employee> 
     <one/>
     <two/>
     <three/>
 </employee>

Becomes:

   <employee>
   </employee>

I want to remove all child nodes of employee.

Solution 1

    public static void removeAll(Node node) 
    {
        for(Node n : node.getChildNodes())
        {
            if(n.hasChildNodes()) //edit to remove children of children
            {
              removeAll(n);
              node.removeChild(n);
            }
            else
              node.removeChild(n);
        }
    }
}

This will remove all the child elements of a Node by passing the employee node in.

Solution 2

No need to remove child nodes of child nodes

public static void removeChilds(Node node) {
    while (node.hasChildNodes())
        node.removeChild(node.getFirstChild());
}

Solution 3

public static void removeAllChildren(Node node)
{
  for (Node child; (child = node.getFirstChild()) != null; node.removeChild(child));
}

Solution 4

Just use:

Node result = node.cloneNode(false);

As document:

Node cloneNode(boolean deep)
deep - If true, recursively clone the subtree under the specified node; if false, clone only the node itself (and its attributes, if it is an Element).

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