Get an attribute of a dom node

Question

I am trying to get an attribute of an xml node example:

I want to grab the name attribute of the car nod

Answer 1

you can do it without using elements, like this:

//HtmlTag represents any arbitrary node that you are trying to get its "car" attribute 

if("HtmlTag".equals(node.getNodeName()))
 String nodeContent=node.getAttributes().getNamedItem("car").getNodeValue()

Answer 2

Your node is an Element so you just have to

Element e = (Element)node;
String name = e.getAttribute("name");