XML reading in JAVA

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What Java XML library do you recommend (to replace dom4j)?

I have been googeling for some days now and can't seem to find the right answer to my challenge.

This is what the items in my xml file looks like.

<Item ItemNo="319097" Name="PCB SIO_1" Value="" Config="1" />

I would like to take every single part of this item line and break down into strings like this:

 String ItemNo = "319097";

So that I can create a string array that consists of the values in side the "" in the item node of the XML file.

Is this possible?

In advance thanks for helping me.

You can use the JDOM library to parse the document. There are lots of code snippets for that in the internet. — juergen d, Dec 16 '11 at 11:04
Possible [duplication](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7153422/java-xml-parser) — Artem, Dec 16 '11 at 11:04
Presonally, I would use XSLT for that, not Java, but that is only my opinion. — Miki, Dec 16 '11 at 11:04
What did you google?? `XML`? Try `how to parse XML attributes in Java`. Bingo! 25 million tutorials. And you even have about 50 possible ways to do it! — Lukas Eder, Dec 16 '11 at 11:07
@duffymo Challenge to because I don't know how ;) LukasEder I actually didn't know it is called "parse" but thanks for the tip... — KarlNorway, Dec 16 '11 at 11:31
Java is not an acronym and should not be set in all caps. Also, `how to read XML attributes in Java` produces a comparable number of relevant results. Or `how to interpret XML with Java`. Or any other phrasing I can conceive of, really. Also, you tagged your `xml-parse` which is in fact a new tag, so I find your claim "I actually didn't know it is called 'parse'" quite dubious. — Karl Knechtel, Dec 16 '11 at 11:36

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 16 '11 at 11:05

The cleaneast way would be to unmarshall the XML using Jaxb or something like Xstream : you create a Java object that represent your XML and then Jaxb will create an object and populate it with the XML values. An example for your XML would be :

public class Item {
   private String itemNo;
   private String name;
   private String value;
   private String config;
   ... GETTERS / SETTERS
}

Tudor · Answer 2 · 2011-12-16T11:10:07.200

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You can use the DOM API (among others) to select all Item elements and then go though the attributes. A nice library for this is Dom4j. You can find some useful code snippets here: http://dom4j.sourceforge.net/dom4j-1.6.1/guide.html

edited Dec 16 '11 at 11:10

answered Dec 16 '11 at 11:04

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