You can delete a document by calling XmlContainer.deleteDocument(). This method can operate either on a document's name or on an XmlDocument object. You might want to use an XmlDocument object to delete a document if you have queried your container for some documents and you want to delete every document in the results set.

For example:

package dbxml.gettingStarted;

import com.sleepycat.dbxml.XmlContainer;
import com.sleepycat.dbxml.XmlDocument;
import com.sleepycat.dbxml.XmlException;
import com.sleepycat.dbxml.XmlManager;
import com.sleepycat.dbxml.XmlQueryContext;
import com.sleepycat.dbxml.XmlResults;
import com.sleepycat.dbxml.XmlValue;
...

XmlManager myManager = null;
XmlContainer myContainer = null;

...

try {
    // Get a manager object.
    myManager = new XmlManager();

    // Open a container
    myContainer = 
        myManager.openContainer("exampleData.dbxml");

    // Get a query context
    XmlQueryContext context = myManager.createQueryContext();

    // Declare a namespace
    context.setNamespace("fruits", "http://groceryItem.dbxml/fruits");

    // Declare the query string. Find all the product documents 
    // in the fruits namespace.
    String myQuery = "collection('exampleData.dbxml')/fruits:product";

    // Perform the query.
    XmlResults results = myManager.query(myQuery, context);

    // Delete everything in the results set

    XmlDocument theDoc = myManager.createDocument();
    while (results.next(theDoc)) {
        myContainer.deleteDocument(theDoc);
    }
    results.delete();
    context.delete();

} catch (XmlException e) {
    // Error handling goes here.
} finally {
    try {
        if (myContainer != null) {
            myContainer.close();
        }

        if (myManager != null) {
            myManager.close();
        }
    } catch (XmlException ce) {
        // Exception handling goes here
    }