import java.io.StringReader;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
public class Main {
public static String getXMLData(){
return "<a><img/><x></x></a>";
}
public static void main(String[] argv) throws Exception {
DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
Document doc = factory.newDocumentBuilder().parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(getXMLData())));
Element element = (Element) doc.getElementsByTagName("x").item(0);
Node parent = element.getParentNode();
parent.removeChild(element);
parent.normalize();
System.out.println(parent);
}
}