Reading XML

[JSN1]

Hi everyone.

I'm trying to read a XML file to my program, however, the XML files contains data in a strange way.

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        <forecast_information>
            <city data="Mexico City, Distrito Federal"/>
            <postal_code data="mexico city"/>
            <latitude_e6 data=""/>
            <longitude_e6 data=""/>
            <forecast_date data="2012-05-15"/>
            <current_date_time data="2012-05-15 19:50:00 +0000"/>
            <unit_system data="US"/>
        </forecast_information>
        <current_conditions>
            <condition data="Mostly Cloudy"/>
            <temp_f data="77"/>
            <temp_c data="25"/>
            <humidity data="Humidity: 22%"/>
            <icon data="/ig/images/weather/mostly_cloudy.gif"/>
            <wind_condition data="Wind: N at 12 mph"/>
        </current_conditions>

The data to read is next to the tag... How can I read that information?

I'm currently using the next method:

public class readxml {
 
	long Megabyte = 1048576;
	long Gigabyte = 1073741824;
 
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		/**
		 * Lee un archivo XML de la Memory Stic
		 */
		readXML("books.xml");
	}
 
	public static void readXML(String path){
		try{
			DocumentBuilder builder = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder();
			File f = new File(path);
			Document documento = builder.parse(f);
			recorrerRamaDOM(documento);
		}catch(Exception e){
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
	}
 
	public static void recorrerRamaDOM(Node nodo){
		if(nodo != null){
			System.out.println("Nombre del Nodo: " + nodo.getNodeName());
			System.out.println("Valor del Nodo: " + nodo.getNodeValue());
			NodeList hijos = nodo.getChildNodes();
			for(int i = 0; i < hijos.getLength(); i++){
				Node nodoNieto = hijos.item(i);
				recorrerRamaDOM(nodoNieto);
			}
		}
	}
}

Hope you could help.

[Fubarable]

You are wanting to extract the *attributes* of your nodes, and the Node class in fact has methods to help you do this, including hasAttributes(), getAttributes(), ...

Other ways to consider for extracting this information include XPath and JAXB, the latter is especially useful if you want to make objects from the information extracted.

[DarrylBurke]

Moved from New to Java

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[JSN1]

Not getting to anything...

Using this...

However, I'm unable to do anything with the data.

Everytime this runs, my vars just go away.

package clima;

import java.io.*;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory;
import org.xml.sax.Attributes;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import org.xml.sax.XMLReader;
import org.xml.sax.helpers.XMLFilterImpl;


public class UsingJAXPTest1 {

    public static void main (String args[]) {


    
        FileInputStream instream = null;
        InputSource is=null;
	try {
	    SAXParserFactory spf = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
	    spf.setNamespaceAware(true);
	    XMLReader xmlReader = spf.newSAXParser().getXMLReader();

	    xmlReader.setContentHandler(new MyContentHandler());

            instream = new FileInputStream("books.xml");
            is = new InputSource(instream);

	    xmlReader.parse(is);
	} catch( IOException e) {
	    e.printStackTrace();
	    System.exit(0);
	} catch( SAXException e) {
	    e.printStackTrace();
	    System.exit(0);
	} catch( ParserConfigurationException e) {
	    e.printStackTrace();
	    System.exit(0);
	}

    }
}
class MyContentHandler extends XMLFilterImpl {
    int contador=0;

    public void startElement(String namespaceURI, String localName,
        String qName, Attributes attributes) 

    {
        

                if (
           
           localName.equals("city") ||
           localName.equals("postal_code") ||
           localName.equals("forecast_date") ||
           localName.equals("current_date_time") ||
           localName.equals("condition") ||
           localName.equals("low") ||
           localName.equals("high") ||
           localName.equals("icon") ||
           localName.equals("temp_c")) 
        
        {
           String lectura = attributes.getValue("data");
           contador++;
           
           System.out.println(contador + " " + localName+" "+lectura);
        }



      
    }
    
    

    
}

[Tolls]

Debug it.
Stick some println()s into the startElement method, for instance printing out the 'localName', 'namespace', 'qname' and 'attributes'.

[JSN1]

Great. Got it to work.

Now, I need to read multiple XML files, is that possible?

[Fubarable]

Great. Got it to work.

Wonderful!

Now, I need to read multiple XML files, is that possible?

Yes, of course it's possible.