Parsing XML file stored in internal storage using DOM parser in android.

Question

I have created an xml file in the device's internal storage as described on the android developers website. I now want to parse the file using DOM parser. What do i need to do to make the DOM parser read my XML file?? Here's a snippet:

    DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
    DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
    Document dom = db.parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(data)));
    dom.getDocumentElement().normalize(); 

What do i need to put in the place of "data" in:

    Document dom = db.parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(data)));

I know it's silly but any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

You can make a input stream of the xml string like below and then getting nodes you can parse to get values.

InputStream is = new ByteArrayInputStream(theXMLString.getBytes("UTF-8"));

        // Build XML document
        DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
        DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
        Document doc = db.parse(is);

Remember you are passing xml file as a string.