/* * Copyright [2013] [Cloud4SOA, www.cloud4soa.eu] * * * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file * distributed with this work for additional information * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ package utils; import javax.xml.parsers.*; import org.xml.sax.InputSource; import org.w3c.dom.*; import java.io.*; public class ParseXmlString { public static void main(String args[]) { String xml_string="<data>" + " <employee>" + " <name>John</name>" + " <title>Manager" + " <name2>John2</name2>"+ "</title>" + " </employee>" + " <employee>" + " <name>Sara</name>" + " <title>Clerk" + " <name2>John32</name2>"+ "</title>" + " </employee>" + "</data>"; String element_name="employee"; ParseXmlString tmp= new ParseXmlString(); tmp.parse(xml_string, element_name,"name2"); } public void parse_print(String xml_string, String element_name) { try { DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder(); InputSource is = new InputSource(); is.setCharacterStream(new StringReader(xml_string)); Document doc = db.parse(is); NodeList nodes = doc.getElementsByTagName(element_name); // iterate the employees for (int i = 0; i < nodes.getLength(); i++) { Element element = (Element) nodes.item(i); NodeList name = element.getElementsByTagName("name2"); Element line = (Element) name.item(0); System.out.println("Name2: " + getCharacterDataFromElement(line)); NodeList title = element.getElementsByTagName("title"); line = (Element) title.item(0); System.out.println("Title: " + getCharacterDataFromElement(line)); } } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } /* output : Name: John Title: Manager Name: Sara Title: Clerk */ } public String parse(String xml_string,String root_element, String element_name) { String ret=""; try { DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder(); InputSource is = new InputSource(); is.setCharacterStream(new StringReader(xml_string)); Document doc = db.parse(is); NodeList nodes = doc.getElementsByTagName(root_element); // iterate the employees //for (int i = 0; i < nodes.getLength(); i++) { Element element = (Element) nodes.item(0); NodeList name = element.getElementsByTagName(element_name); Element line = (Element) name.item(0); System.out.println(element_name+" : " + getCharacterDataFromElement(line)); ret=getCharacterDataFromElement(line); // NodeList title = element.getElementsByTagName("title"); // line = (Element) title.item(0); // System.out.println("Title: " + getCharacterDataFromElement(line)); // } } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } return ret; } public static String getCharacterDataFromElement(Element e) { Node child = e.getFirstChild(); if (child instanceof CharacterData) { CharacterData cd = (CharacterData) child; return cd.getData(); } return "?"; } }