If the XML file contains Chinese, you need to add XML Version = "1.0" Encoding = "GB2312" to parse for instance: a XML File Like this: insert> Action> Import Javax. xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory; import org.w3c.dom *;. public class xml2oth {DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance (); DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder (); Element root = doc .getdocumentelement (); nodelist allNode = root.getChildNodes (); for (int i = 1; i