extract element from xml string

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<media:thumbnail url="http:// mysite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/mes1-300x186.png" width="320" length="125399" type="image/jpg"/>

How to extract the URL from this xml ? If I have the above as string ?

Look here: http://www.mkyong.com/java/how-to-read-xml-file-in-java-dom-parser/ — markusw, Nov 25 '13 at 13:12
Hava a look at here http://stackoverflow.com/a/16712849/1051509 — Maksim, Nov 25 '13 at 13:13

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 25 '13 at 13:20

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Supposing you have the XML string stored in String str, one lazy and simple way to retrieve the URL (if you always expect the same input text format) could be:

String url = str.split("\"")[1];

answered Nov 25 '13 at 13:20

akrog

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 25 '13 at 13:22

Some times, as a quick "one time solution" you can use regular expressions.

String xml="<media:thumbnail url=\"http:// mysite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/    mes1-300x186.png\" width=\"320\" length=\"125399\" type=\"image/jpg\"/>";
Pattern pattern=Pattern.compile("url\\s*=\\s*\\\"(.*?)\\\"");
Matcher m=pattern.matcher(xml);
if(m.find()){
   String urlValue=m.group(1);
   System.out.println(urlValue);
}

extract element from xml string

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