xml parser (2)

[kkGG]

My second post on the topic, I've created a class that will handle xml files for a larger project I am working on. The parse method I have been working on has been working fine. So in this method

doc

is a private

Document

variable that has already been parsed. What I'm looking to do is get each one of these attributes in the list, which I have managed to do. However, they are ordered differently in the list than they are in the xml file I read them from. It just seems to be a random order, which isn't good since eventually I'm looking to take the attributes and use them to populate some fields. Is there any way around this? One way I thought of was to get each attribute individually, but how would I do that if the Node api includes a getAtributtes method but not getAttribute...?

public String[] getValues(String tagName, int amount) {
        String[] s1 = new String[2];
        String[] s2 = new String[100];
        
        doc.normalizeDocument();
        Element rootElement = doc.getDocumentElement();
        NodeList subElement = rootElement.getElementsByTagName(tagName);
        Node element = subElement.item(0);
        
        NamedNodeMap attributes = element.getAttributes();
        
        for(int i = 0; i < amount; i++) {
            s1 = (attributes.item(i).toString()).split("\"");
            s2[i] = (s1[1]);
        }
        
        return s2;
    }

xml code concerned:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="us-ascii"?>
<ConfigurationData>
   <CommunicationParameters
      Port="COM1"
      Baud="115200"
      PacketFrequency="5.0"
      PacketTimeout="1.0"
      CommunicationsType="1"
      UserFrequency="5.0"
      UserTimeout="1.0"
      NamedPort=""
   />

   <ConfigurationParameters
      Filename="C:\Documents and Settings\Tim Cowen.EXTORR-TIM.000\Desktop\shipped\in progress\sn4118_Repair\sn4118_Repair_factory_cal.cfg"
      Description="Air + PTA"
      TimeStamp="07d9000600010008000b0035003601e8"
      DateTime="6/8/2009 11:53:54 AM"
      Caption="4118 Repair"
      Serial="0"
      Model="0"
   />

   <ScanParameters
      ScanSpeed="144"
      LowMass="1"
      HighMass="110"
      SamplesPerAMU="10"
   />

[Tolls]

You want a Map<String, String> to map the attribute name to it's value.
Return that, then the calling method can turn that into an appropriate object (eg a CommunicationParameters object, or a ConfigurationParameters object).

[kkGG]

Just to make sure, I'm assuming the attribute name is, for example, "SamplesPerAMU" ?

[Tolls]

Yep.
So (for that element) you'd have a map containing:
"ScanSpeed" -> "144"
"LowMass" -> "1"
"HighMass" -> "110"
"SamplesPerAMU" -> "10"

Since you know the 'tagName' (ie the class that this represents) you could pass this into a suitable class constructor or factory method.