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Jeavie
Jeavie

Reputation: 212

How to get URL as a string from xml file?

It sounds like a simple question, but I haven't found an answer yet.

I've got an .xml file consists of different items including one URL item. I know the beginning of that URL string item. What is the easiest way to find this URL among other items and get it as a string?

Here is a class which checks if xml file exists. If it exists, I should get an url from it.

public class ConfigFile {

    private Context context;
    private static String url;

    public ConfigFile (Context _context, String _url){
        this.context = _context;
        this.url = _url;
    }

    public static String getUrl() {
        return url;
    }

    public static void setUrl(String url) {
        ConfigFile.url = url;
    }


    public void checkExistence(){
        File file = new File(context.getApplicationContext().getFilesDir(),"configfile.xml");
        if(file.exists()){
            // here I should paste code which returns url to set it as connection
            //setUrl();
        }
        else{
            //smth
        }

    }

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1953

Answers (1)

Sam
Sam

Reputation: 5392

Just use basic xml parsing framework built into Android.

Basic Android Documentation on XML parsing. https://developer.android.com/training/basics/network-ops/xml

if you find that one to be too complicated, then use one that is based on annotations. SimpleXML is one I have used in the past and works well.

http://simple.sourceforge.net/download/stream/doc/tutorial/tutorial.php

Upvotes: 1

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