Java: Remove all Elements from the Document Element

[msphelix 0]

Hi, I am displaying Nodes from the following XML file in a Java GUI.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?><bookstore> <book category="cooking"> <title>Everyday Italian</title> <author>Giada De Laurentiis</author> </book><!-- more book elements --></bookstore>I haveElement documentElement = xmlDocument.getDocumentElement();andNodeList bookNodes = documentElement.getElementsByTagName("book");I want to allow the user to remove all <book> elements while not destroying xmlDocument - I want the user to be able to add <book> elements to the same Document even after removing all of the existing elements.I can do this by running bookNodes from tail to head, getting each element, and calling documentElement.removeChild(thisElement).ButIs there a way to do this in one call?documentElement.removeAll();Thanks.

[boen_robot 107]

When you want to keep some stuff... no. If you want to completely clean the bookstore element, you could just use replaceChild over the element itself, i.e.

xmlDocument.replaceChild(documentElement.cloneNode(false), documentElement);