Problem in reading xml

[gayathri_g]

i tried to get the number childnodes from a tag in a xml.But its showing even the nodes inside the child nodes.Can anyone correct me...???

package edc;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;

public class ReadXML 
{
    NodeList nodelist;
    public static void main(String [] args)
    {
        ReadXML obj = new ReadXML();
        obj.parse();
    }
    public void parse()
    {
        
        try
        {
            DocumentBuilderFactory docfact  = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
            DocumentBuilder docbuilder      = docfact.newDocumentBuilder();
            Document doc;
            doc                             = docbuilder.parse("d:/files/edc.xml");
            nodelist                        = (NodeList) doc.getElementsByTagName("date");
            int dateNodecount               = nodelist.getLength();
                     
            for(int i=0;i<dateNodecount;i++)
            {
                int count                   = nodelist.item(i).getChildNodes().getLength();//getNodeName();
                System.out.println(count);
            }
        } 
        catch (SAXException ex) 
        {
            Logger.getLogger(ReadXML.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
        } 
        catch (IOException ex) {
            Logger.getLogger(ReadXML.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
        }        catch (ParserConfigurationException ex) {
            Logger.getLogger(ReadXML.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
        }
    }
}



here is my xml:


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<edc>
<date value = "28-8-2009">
<classroom value = "c1">
<session id = "3" language = "english" lic_type = "l.v" lesson_code = "l1" st_cnt = "12" staff_id = "staff-01">
</session>
</classroom>
<classroom value = "c1">
<session id = "4" language = "english" lic_type = "l.v" lesson_code = "l2" st_cnt = "12" staff_id = "staff-01"/>
</classroom>
<classroom value = "c2">
<session id = "1" language = "urudu" lic_type = "l.v" lesson_code = "l1" st_cnt = "17" staff_id = "staff-02"/>
</classroom>
<classroom value = "c2">
<session id = "2" language = "urudu" lic_type = "l.v" lesson_code = "l2" st_cnt = "17" staff_id = "staff-02"/>
</classroom>
</date>
<date value = "29-8-2009">
<classroom value = "c1">
<session id = "3" language = "english" lic_type = "l.v" lesson_code = "l3" st_cnt = "12" staff_id = "staff-01"/>
</classroom>
<classroom value = "c1">
<session id = "4" language = "english" lic_type = "l.v" lesson_code = "l4" st_cnt = "12" staff_id = "staff-01"/>
</classroom>
<classroom value = "c2">
<session id = "1" language = "urudu" lic_type = "l.v" lesson_code = "l3" st_cnt = "17" staff_id = "staff-02"/>
</classroom>
<classroom value = "c2">
<session id = "2" language = "urudu" lic_type = "l.v" lesson_code = "l4" st_cnt = "17" staff_id = "staff-02"/>
</classroom>
</date>
</edc>

[/CODE]

[r035198x]

What was your expected output and what output did you get?

[Tolls]

i tried to get the number childnodes from a tag in a xml.But its showing even the nodes inside the child nodes.Can anyone correct me...???

It's not showing the nodes inside the children, it's showing the text nodes. All that whitespace is text, to the parser, and is treated as a node.

So this <date>:

<date value = "28-8-2009">
<classroom value = "c1">
<session id = "3" language = "english" lic_type = "l.v" lesson_code = "l1" st_cnt = "12" staff_id = "staff-01">
</session>
</classroom>
</date>

has a text node (the new line after <date> and before <classroom>), an element node (the classroom), and another text node (the new line after </classroom> and before </date>).

ETA: since, presumably, you want to count the classrooms for a date then just select them, rather than all child nodes.

[gayathri_g]

my expected o/p ,for the first tag(date) the count of childnode(classroom) should be 4 and for the count should be 4 but i'm getting 9 and 9.

[gayathri_g]

since, presumably, you want to count the classrooms for a date then just select them, rather than all child nodes.

how to select only the classroom node under each "date" node?

[Tolls]

how to select only the classroom node under each "date" node?

Your date Node (ie the Nodes in your original NodeList) is an Element. So cast it to Element and use the methods in Element (in fact getElementsByTagName() that you've already used for the document) to get the classrooms.