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SkyeBoniwell
SkyeBoniwell

Reputation: 7092

how read xml file from res folder

I want to load data from an XML file and assign that data to variables in my Android app.

After doing some research on the various XML parsers available to Android, I figure the best parser method to use would be SAX.

I've read through a bunch of posts about reading XML from Android however I can't find one that uses a local file in the 'res' folder.

All the tutorials I've found are loading the XML file via a URL.

Is there a way to load the XML from the res folder?

Thanks

Upvotes: 2

Views: 6872

Answers (4)

Sadeq Shajary
Sadeq Shajary

Reputation: 437

you cant use a xml file in raw folder. because this error occurred : "Expected resource of type raw." but u can easily place this xml file in assets folder and use it with :

 is = getAssets().open("myFedd.xml") ;

Upvotes: 0

litterbugkid
litterbugkid

Reputation: 3666

You could look at my past question regarding the same issue: How to use DOM to read XML within Android applications correctly?

From my experience I've copied the xml file into the res/raw folder and was able to read it correctly there using res.openRawResource(R.raw.the_id). You can load it from the res/layout folder but some of the information when you parse it may be in binary, which wouldn't be ideal.

Upvotes: 1

Ovidiu Latcu
Ovidiu Latcu

Reputation: 72321

Use :

 InputStream is=getResources().openRawResource(R.raw.my_xml);

to get an input stream to your XML, and then use XMLPullParser to parse the file :

 XmlPullParser xpp=XmlPullParserFactory.newInstance().newPullParser();
 xpp.setInput(is,"your-encoding");

Upvotes: 1

coder_For_Life22
coder_For_Life22

Reputation: 26971

Put the xml into /res/raw folder. It looks like openRawResource opens resources from that folder only. You can also try getResources().getXml(com.MYCLass.R.xml.programs); which will return you instance of XML parser.

Upvotes: 2

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