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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2016, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
+ *
+ * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+ * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
+ * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
+ * version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that
+ * accompanied this code).
+ *
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+ * Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+ *
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+ */
+
+/*
+ * @test
+ * @bug     8167281
+ * @summary Test verifies that Element.getElementsByTagName("*") is not empty
+ *          for valid image.
+ * @run     main GetElementsByTagNameTest
+ */
+
+import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
+import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
+import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
+import javax.imageio.ImageReader;
+import javax.imageio.metadata.IIOMetadata;
+import javax.imageio.metadata.IIOMetadataFormatImpl;
+import javax.imageio.stream.ImageInputStream;
+import javax.imageio.stream.MemoryCacheImageInputStream;
+import org.w3c.dom.Element;
+
+public class GetElementsByTagNameTest {
+
+    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
+        // Generate some trivial image and save it to a temporary array
+        ByteArrayOutputStream tmp = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
+        ImageIO.write(new BufferedImage(1, 1, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB),
+                "gif", tmp);
+
+        // Read the stream
+        ImageInputStream in = new MemoryCacheImageInputStream(
+                new ByteArrayInputStream(tmp.toByteArray()));
+        ImageReader reader = ImageIO.getImageReaders(in).next();
+        reader.setInput(in);
+
+        // Retrieve standard image metadata tree
+        IIOMetadata meta = reader.getImageMetadata(0);
+        if (meta == null || !meta.isStandardMetadataFormatSupported()) {
+            throw new Error("Test failure: Missing metadata");
+        }
+        Element root = (Element) meta.
+                getAsTree(IIOMetadataFormatImpl.standardMetadataFormatName);
+
+        // Test getElementsByTagName("*")
+        if (root.getElementsByTagName("*").getLength() == 0) {
+            throw new RuntimeException("getElementsByTagName(\"*\") returns"
+                    + " nothing");
+        }
+    }
+}
+