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How to save data when parsing XML?

I have a xml-file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<list>
<file name="a" size="559393"/>
<file name="b" size="1766945"/>
...
</list>

With SAX-parser I need to get the attribute values (in my case the name and size values of all tags file) and write in a collection for the further work my program.

How should I realize this? For each tag file to create an object with the fields name and size, and add it all to the ArrayListObject?

Solution

  • yes , you should have already object with name and size attributes , and while you in start element method , do something like this . 

    @Override
public void startElement(String uri, String localName, String qName, Attributes attributes)
        throws SAXException {

    if (qName.equalsIgnoreCase("file")) {
        String name = attributes.getValue("name");
        String size = attributes.getValue("size");
        file file = new file (name,size);
        list.add(file);
        }
      }