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Nicklas J.G Olsen
Nicklas J.G Olsen

Reputation: 43

Parsing string of xml android

I'm having a little trouble parsing a string of xml called responseText in android. The xml is fully valid and has the following structure:

<plan>
<entry>
<name>john</name>
<address>uk</address>
</entry>
<entry>
<name>joe</name>
<address>usa</address>
</entry>
</plan>

The code I am using to parse the String is as follows:

    try {
        DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
        DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
        InputSource is = new InputSource();

        is.setCharacterStream(new StringReader(responseText));

        Document doc = db.parse(is);
        NodeList nodes = doc.getElementsByTagName("entry");

        for (int i = 0; i < nodes.getLength(); i++) {

            Element element = (Element) nodes.item(i);

            NodeList name = ((Document) element)
                    .getElementsByTagName("name");
            Element line = (Element) name.item(0);
            Toast.makeText(Containers.this,
                    getCharacterDataFromElement(line), Toast.LENGTH_SHORT)
                    .show();

            NodeList title = ((Document) element)
                    .getElementsByTagName("address");
            line = (Element) title.item(0);
            Toast.makeText(Containers.this,
                    getCharacterDataFromElement(line), Toast.LENGTH_SHORT)
                    .show();

        }
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

public static String getCharacterDataFromElement(Element e) {
    Node child = ((Node) e).getFirstChild();
    if (child instanceof CharacterData) {
        CharacterData cd = (CharacterData) child;
        return cd.getData();
    }
    return "?";

}

I'm just using simple toasts to print the xml data to screen. However, i get an IOexception when I enter the for loop. Any idea what is wrong?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3314

Answers (3)

JLund
JLund

Reputation: 516

Are you importing the types from the correct packages? Something like

import java.io.StringReader;

import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;

import org.w3c.dom.CharacterData;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;

import android.sax.Element; // Wrong Element class

Change the last import to

import org.w3c.dom.Element;

and try again.

Upvotes: 8

Ted Hopp
Ted Hopp

Reputation: 234795

Try adding an xml declaration at the start of your string.

Upvotes: 0

Matti Virkkunen
Matti Virkkunen

Reputation: 65126

I don't see anything that could cause an IOException inside the loop.

However, are you sure you can just go and cast an Element into a Document? At any rate you shouldn't need to anyways, since Element also has the getElementsByTagName method.

Upvotes: 1

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