XML
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Employees>
<Employee emplid="1111" type="admin">
<firstname>John</firstname>
<lastname>Watson</lastname>
<age>30</age>
<email>[email protected]</email>
</Employee>
<Employee emplid="2222" type="admin">
<firstname>Sherlock</firstname>
<lastname>Homes</lastname>
<age>32</age>
<email>[email protected]</email>
</Employee>
<Employee emplid="3333" type="user">
<firstname>Jim</firstname>
<lastname>Moriarty</lastname>
<age>52</age>
<email>[email protected]</email>
</Employee>
<Employee emplid="4444" type="user">
<firstname>Mycroft</firstname>
<lastname>Holmes</lastname>
<age>41</age>
<email>[email protected]</email>
</Employee>
</Employees>
Code
FileInputStream file = new FileInputStream(new File("/Users/Desktop/employees.xml"));
DocumentBuilderFactory builderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder builder = builderFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
Document xmlDocument = builder.parse(file);
XPath xPath = XPathFactory.newInstance().newXPath();
System.out.println("*************************");
String expression = "/Employees/Employee/firstname";
System.out.println(expression);
NodeList nodeList = (NodeList) xPath.compile(expression).evaluate(xmlDocument, XPathConstants.NODESET);
for (int i = 0; i < nodeList.getLength(); i++) {
System.out.println(nodeList.item(i).getFirstChild().getNodeValue());
}
By using above code I managed to fetch John,Sherlock,Jim,Mycroft
. How do I do if i want to get emplid="1111" type="admin" John,emplid="2222" type="admin" Sherlock,emplid="3333" type="user" Jim,emplid="4444" type="user" Mycroft
. Any advice or references link is highly appreciated.
Take a look @ the API:
String expression = "/Employees/Employee";
NodeList nodeList = (NodeList) xPath.compile(expression).evaluate(xmlDocument, XPathConstants.NODESET);
for (int i = 0; i < nodeList.getLength(); i++) {
Node employeeNode = nodeList.item(i);
String emplId = employeeNode.getAttributes().getNamedItem("emplid").getNodeValue();
}
(http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/org/w3c/dom/Node.html#getAttributes())