Parse empty tag

Question

XmlPullParser does not parse self-closing tag, simply skip it, even "isEmptyElementTag" doesn't help. How to solve this problem? I want to parse self-closing tag company.

XML structure

<phone>
    <id>1</id>
    <company/> // it should parse
    <model>Galaxy</model>
    <price>18000</price>
</phone>

Code:

    try {
        XmlPullParser xpp = prepareXpp();
        while (xpp.getEventType() != XmlPullParser.END_DOCUMENT) {

            switch (xpp.getEventType()) {

                case XmlPullParser.START_TAG:

                    if (xpp.isEmptyElementTag()) {
                        tagName = "company"; }

                      break;

                case XmlPullParser.TEXT:

                    if (tagName.equals("company")) {
                        Log.d(LOG_TAG, "Empty tag"  );
                    }

                    break;
                default:
                    break;
            }

            xpp.next();
        }
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (XmlPullParserException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
  XmlPullParser prepareXpp () {
    return getResources().getXml(R.xml.data);

Answer 1

As you can see in documentation:

Empty element (such as <tag/>) will be reported with two separate events: START_TAG, END_TAG

So it does not enter case XmlPullParser.TEXT: tag.

If you add some logging to START_TAG you should see logs in console:

case XmlPullParser.START_TAG:
    if (xpp.isEmptyElementTag()) {
        Log.d(LOG_TAG, "Empty tag"); 
    }
    break;

Edit: You could try to do next workaround move your xml file to raw folder and add next code to :

XmlPullParser prepareXpp () {
    InputStream istream = getResources().openRawResource(R.raw.data);
    XmlPullParserFactory factory = XmlPullParserFactory.newInstance();
    XmlPullParser xpp = factory.newPullParser();
    xpp.setInput(istream, "UTF-8");
    return xpp;
}