XML reading in JAVA [duplicate]

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What Java XML library do you recommend (to replace dom4j)?

I have been googeling for some days now and can't seem to find the right answer to my challenge.

This is what the items in my xml file looks like.

<Item ItemNo="319097" Name="PCB SIO_1" Value="" Config="1" />

I would like to take every single part of this item line and break down into strings like this:

 String ItemNo = "319097";

So that I can create a string array that consists of the values in side the "" in the item node of the XML file.

Is this possible?

In advance thanks for helping me.

You can use the JDOM library to parse the document. There are lots of code snippets for that in the internet. — juergen d
– juergen d, Commented Dec 16, 2011 at 11:04
Presonally, I would use XSLT for that, not Java, but that is only my opinion. — Miki
– Miki, Commented Dec 16, 2011 at 11:04

Jean-Philippe Briend · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-16 11:05:23Z

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The cleaneast way would be to unmarshall the XML using Jaxb or something like Xstream : you create a Java object that represent your XML and then Jaxb will create an object and populate it with the XML values. An example for your XML would be :

public class Item {
   private String itemNo;
   private String name;
   private String value;
   private String config;
   ... GETTERS / SETTERS
}

answered Dec 16, 2011 at 11:05

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Tudor · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-16 11:10:07Z

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You can use the DOM API (among others) to select all Item elements and then go though the attributes. A nice library for this is Dom4j. You can find some useful code snippets here: http://dom4j.sourceforge.net/dom4j-1.6.1/guide.html

edited Dec 16, 2011 at 11:10

answered Dec 16, 2011 at 11:04

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