<doc>
<element>
text
<item>
text1
</item>
<item>
text2
</item>
text3
</element>
<element>
another text
</element>
...
</doc>
And I want to extract text to an string like this:
"text text1 text2 text3"
"item" tags are nested inside "element"
Im using xmlpullparser in Android but I could use any other parser if it make things easier.
tx.
I parse similar xml files. Here is an example. You'll need to add error checking as appropriate.
void loadXML(XmlPullParser xpp) {
int eventType = xpp.next();
while (eventType != XmlPullParser.END_DOCUMENT) {
if (eventType == XmlPullParser.START_TAG && 0 == XML_ELEMENT_TAG.compareTo(xpp.getName())) {
loadElement(xpp);
}
eventType = xpp.next();
}
}
private void loadElement(XmlPullParser xpp) {
int eventType = xpp.getEventType();
if ( eventType == XmlPullParser.START_TAG && 0 == XML_ELEMENT_TAG.compareTo(xpp.getName()) ) {
eventType = xpp.next();
while ( eventType != XmlPullParser.END_TAG || 0 != XML_ELEMENT_TAG.compareTo(xpp.getName()) ) {
if (eventType == XmlPullParser.START_TAG && 0 == XML_ITEM_TAG.compareTo(xpp.getName())) {
loadItem(xpp);
}
eventType = xpp.next();
}
}
}
private void loadItem(XmlPullParser xpp) {
int eventType = xpp.getEventType();
if ( eventType == XmlPullParser.START_TAG && 0 == XML_ITEM_TAG.compareTo(xpp.getName()) ) {
eventType = xpp.next();
while ( eventType != XmlPullParser.END_TAG || 0 != XML_ITEM_TAG.compareTo(xpp.getName()) ) {
// Get attributes.
String attr = xpp.getAttributeValue(null, XML_MY_ATTR);
String text = null;
// Get item text if present.
eventType = xpp.next();
while ( eventType != XmlPullParser.END_TAG || 0 != XML_ITEM_TAG.compareTo(xpp.getName()) ) {
if ( eventType == XmlPullParser.TEXT ) {
text = xpp.getText();
}
eventType = xpp.next();
}
eventType = xpp.next();
}
}
}
Have you had a look at the Android documentation for XMLPullParser? It pretty easy to follow. Let us know if that solves your problem.