Getting started with XMLPullParser

Question

I am trying to use XMLPullParser but I cannot find any useful tutorials. Based off of the instructions on http://xmlpull.org/ I need to download an implementation of XMLPullParser as a jar file and then add it to my class path. However I cannot find any link to any jar file that works. Does anyone know where I might be able to find a jar file I can download.

Thanks

Answer 1

Ok, here it is for you.

From the official doc :

XmlPull API Implementations:

1. XNI 2 XmlPull
2. XPP3/MXP1
3. KXML2

Here i use KXML2.

Steps :

1. Download KXML2 jar file from here.
2. Create a new java project

3. Create a new class

4. Right click the java project -> Properties -> Java Build path -> Libraries -> Add external jar's -> Add downloaded kxml2 jar file.

5. Java code

   import java.io.IOException;
   import java.io.StringReader;
   import org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParser;
   import org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserException;
   import org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserFactory;
   
   public class XmlPullparserBasic {
   public static void main (String args[]) throws XmlPullParserException, IOException
   {
       XmlPullParserFactory factory = XmlPullParserFactory.newInstance();
       factory.setNamespaceAware(true);
       XmlPullParser xpp = factory.newPullParser();
       xpp.setInput( new StringReader ( "<foo>Hello World!</foo>" ) );
   
       int eventType = xpp.getEventType();
   
       while (eventType != XmlPullParser.END_DOCUMENT) {
        if(eventType == XmlPullParser.START_DOCUMENT) {
            System.out.println("Start document");
        } else if(eventType == XmlPullParser.START_TAG) {
            System.out.println("Start tag "+xpp.getName());
        } else if(eventType == XmlPullParser.END_TAG) {
            System.out.println("End tag "+xpp.getName());
        } else if(eventType == XmlPullParser.TEXT) {
            System.out.println("Text "+xpp.getText());
        }
        eventType = xpp.next();
       }
   
       System.out.println("End document");
   
     }
   
   }
   

Output :

Hope it helps!