To parse an xml in java, we can make use of the JAXP – Java API for XML Parsing.  The JAXP provides 2 standards which are SAX and DOM respectively. Here is the sample code which parses an xml using the DOM standard.

sample1.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<People>
	<Person>
		<Name>Alice</Name>
		<Gender>Female</Gender>
		<Age>23</Age>
	</Person>
	<Person>
		<Name>Bob</Name>
		<Gender>Male</Gender>
		<Age>25</Age>
	</Person>
</People>

DomParser1.java

import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;

public class DomParser1 {
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		System.out.println("*** Start ***");

		try {
			DocumentBuilderFactory documentBuilderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
			DocumentBuilder documentBuilder = documentBuilderFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
			Document document = documentBuilder.parse("./sample1.xml");

			Node parentNode = null;
			Node childNode = null;
			NodeList parentNodeList = null;
			NodeList childNodeList = null;

			parentNodeList = document.getElementsByTagName("Person");

			for (int i = 0; i < parentNodeList.getLength(); i++) {
				parentNode = parentNodeList.item(i);
				childNodeList = parentNode.getChildNodes();

				for (int j = 0; j < childNodeList.getLength(); j++) {
					childNode = childNodeList.item(j);
					if (childNode.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE) {
						System.out.println(childNode.getNodeName() + ": " + childNode.getTextContent());
					}
				}
			}
		} catch (Exception e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}

		System.out.println("***  End  ***");
	}
}

You can find the following text after running.

*** Start ***
Name: Alice
Gender: Female
Age: 23
Name: Bob
Gender: Male
Age: 25
*** End ***