Unable to read xml with namespace prefix using DOM parser

The W3C dom method for namespaced elements:

getElementsByTagNameNS

NodeList getElementsByTagNameNS(String namespaceURI,
                                String localName)

    Returns a NodeList of all the Elements with a given local name and namespace URI in document order.

    Parameters:
        namespaceURI - The namespace URI of the elements to match on. The special value "*" matches all namespaces.
        localName - The local name of the elements to match on. The special value "*" matches all local names. 
    Returns:
        A new NodeList object containing all the matched Elements.
    Since:
        DOM Level 2

IIRC earlier version of the W3C DOM had poor support for namespaces so I don’t use it. However if you use the above with the full namespaceURI http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/ it should work. The prefix is unimportant – it has no permanency outside the document it is used in.

so try:

System.out.println("Element :" + doc.getElementsByTagNameNS(
        "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/", "Token").item(0));

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