PowenKo, android,Tutorial 060-2, Data, DOMParser

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Tutorial_Data_DOMParserActivity

package com.powenko.Tutorial_Data_DOMParser;

import java.net.URL;

import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;

import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.widget.LinearLayout;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class Tutorial_Data_DOMParserActivity extends Activity {

	@Override
	public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
		super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

		/** Create a new layout to display the view */
		LinearLayout layout = new LinearLayout(this);
		layout.setOrientation(1);

		/** Create a new textview array to display the results */
		TextView name[];
		TextView website[];
		TextView category[];

		try {

			URL url = new URL(	"http://www.powenko.com/download/domexample.xml");
			DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
			DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
			Document doc = db.parse(new InputSource(url.openStream()));
			doc.getDocumentElement().normalize();

			NodeList nodeList = doc.getElementsByTagName("item");

			/** Assign textview array lenght by arraylist size */
			name = new TextView[nodeList.getLength()];
			website = new TextView[nodeList.getLength()];
			category = new TextView[nodeList.getLength()];

			for (int i = 0; i < nodeList.getLength(); i++) {

				Node node = nodeList.item(i);

				name[i] = new TextView(this);
				website[i] = new TextView(this);
				category[i] = new TextView(this);

				Element fstElmnt = (Element) node;
				NodeList nameList = fstElmnt.getElementsByTagName("name");
				Element nameElement = (Element) nameList.item(0);
				nameList = nameElement.getChildNodes();
				name[i].setText("Name = "
						+ ((Node) nameList.item(0)).getNodeValue());

				NodeList websiteList = fstElmnt.getElementsByTagName("website");
				Element websiteElement = (Element) websiteList.item(0);
				websiteList = websiteElement.getChildNodes();
				website[i].setText("Website = "
						+ ((Node) websiteList.item(0)).getNodeValue());

				category[i].setText("Website Category = "
						+ websiteElement.getAttribute("category"));

				layout.addView(name[i]);
				layout.addView(website[i]);
				layout.addView(category[i]);

			}
		} catch (Exception e) {
			System.out.println("XML Pasing Excpetion = " + e);
		}

		/** Set the layout view to display */
		setContentView(layout);

	}
}

AndroidManifest.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
      package="com.powenko.Tutorial_Data_DOMParser"
      android:versionCode="1"
      android:versionName="1.0">
    <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="4" />

    <application android:icon="@drawable/icon" android:label="@string/app_name">
        <activity android:name=".Tutorial_Data_DOMParserActivity"
                  android:label="@string/app_name">
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>

    </application>

    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>
</manifest>

Information:

if you want to parser String, please change below code

			InputSource inStream = new InputSource();
			inStream.setCharacterStream(new StringReader(i_xmlString));
			Document doc = db.parse(inStream);

sample code:

Tutorial_Data_DOMParser