Parsing XML attributes

[javanewbie2020]

I just read the XML tutorial and I understand that I'm parsing XML that contains attributes. However, the sample parser examples only seem to parse XML containing elements and I'm not sure how to parse out the attributes. For example, given the following XML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<group size="4" name="zipcode">
  <user login="user1"/>
  <user login="user2"/>
  <user login="user3"/>
  <user login="user4"/>
  <summary>
    <!-- Total saved this time unit -->
    <fulfilledSavings>
      <impact type="dollar" name="dollars" amount="-169.64"/>
      <impact type="miles" name="number of miles" amount="286.61"/>
    </fulfilledSavings>
  </summary>
</group>

I'm using the following but no data is being returned (as a result, I get the java.lang.NullPointerException)

public XMLReader(String xmlToParse) {
		try {
			  
			// http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=513942
			
			  DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
			  DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
			  
			  InputSource inStream = new InputSource();
			  inStream.setCharacterStream(new StringReader(xmlToParse));
			  
			  Document doc = db.parse(inStream);
			  
			  System.out.println("Root element " + doc.getDocumentElement().getNodeName());
			  NodeList nodeLst = doc.getElementsByTagName("fulfilledSavings");
			  System.out.println("Information of all summary");

			  for (int s = 0; s < nodeLst.getLength(); s++) {

			    Node fstNode = nodeLst.item(s);
			    
			    if (fstNode.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE) {
			  
			      Element fstElmnt = (Element) fstNode;
			      NodeList fstNmElmntLst = fstElmnt.getElementsByTagName("fulfilledSavings");
			      Element fstNmElmnt = (Element) fstNmElmntLst.item(0);
			      NodeList fstNm = fstNmElmnt.getChildNodes();
			      System.out.println("fulfilledSavings: "  + ((Node) fstNm.item(0)).getNodeValue());
			      //NodeList lstNmElmntLst = fstElmnt.getElementsByTagName("lastname");
			      //Element lstNmElmnt = (Element) lstNmElmntLst.item(0);
			      //NodeList lstNm = lstNmElmnt.getChildNodes();
			      //System.out.println("Last Name : " + ((Node) lstNm.item(0)).getNodeValue());
			    }

			  }
			  } catch (Exception e) {
			    e.printStackTrace();
			  }
		}

Could someone let me know if there's another type of parser I should be using and/or if I'm missing something simple. Thanks.

[Eranga]

Did you read about other Node types? Read them first of all if you can. There are few.