JAVA and XML Problem

[jackchang]

Hi,

I have a really big XML to handle (around 5000 lines).

Basically I need to read it and pass the data to UI.

It has a lot of tags and most of them have attributes.

The problem is I need to pass tag names, attribute names etc... to get the data.

If it were a small XML, i could have done it by passing the tag names and attributes names.

Now, I want to know if i can just do something like get the root tag , get its name, check if it has children, if yes then get the tag names and text. Check if the tags have attributes. If yes, get their name and values, and so on. I can then put the tag names, tag values , attribute names, attribute values and the text values in a collection class along with the tags heirarchy wrt the root tag(0 for root, 1 for root's children, 2 for its grandchildren...) and pass it to the UI.

Is there a way to do this?

Thanks in advance
Praveen

[subrahmanyam.adapa]

Hi ,
You can parse (using dom4j) the xml file each element and loop throgh all child elements like ......

Element result = (Element) document.getRootElement();

List resultElements = result.elements();
if (resultElements != null && resultElements.size() != 0) {
for (int i = 0; i < resultElements.size(); i++) {
oneChiled= (Element) resultElements.get(i);

etc....
}

You try to store all the elements received in a collection.

[pankaj_salwan]

JAVA Supports parser DOM to parse the xml ...

[Kalpesh_m]

buddy i am creating a svg generator and have developed an gui but svg data is stored in xml format can any one help me out here

[Kalpesh_m]

hi guys,
i am crating a image developer whose image is stored in xml format i.e. basically a SVG creator, i have developed a basic model but i am unable to save those document in x,l format because i dont know how to use parsers of dom and basic XML component with java.
can any one help me i am in real trouble