import java.io.StringReader;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
String xml = "<xml xmlns:log='http://sample.com'><test log:writer='someWriter'/></xml>";
StringReader xmlReader = new StringReader(xml);
DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
factory.setNamespaceAware(true);
DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
Document doc = builder.parse(new InputSource(xmlReader));
Element currentNode = (Element) doc.getElementsByTagName("test").item(0);
String attributeValue = currentNode.getAttributes()
.getNamedItemNS("http://sample.com", "writer").getNodeValue();
System.out.println("Attribute value is " + attributeValue);
xmlReader.close();
}
}