Print XML tag

[DonCash]

Hey,

I have written some java code to Parse an XML file.

It is almost exactly the same as the code here:

http://www.developertutorials.com/print/393.html

Basically, I have it returning the XML values but what I want to be able to do now is to return the tag itself.

So if we have:

<age>22</age>

I have the code which will return: 22

Now I need the code to show the actual TAG: <age>

Does anyone know how this can be done????

THANKS!!!!!!

[ComputerJy]

the

doc.getDocumentElement()

Gets the first element in the document.
The

doc.getChildNodes()

Loads child nodes following the first node.
It's a NodeList object, so you can iterate your way in it

[DonCash]

Cheers for the reply ComputerJy

It's a NodeList object, so you can iterate your way in it

Can you please give an example?

[ComputerJy]

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;

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

import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;

public class ReadAndPrintXMLFile {
    public static void main(String argv[]) throws ParserConfigurationException,
	    SAXException, IOException {
	DocumentBuilderFactory docBuilderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory
		.newInstance();
	DocumentBuilder docBuilder = docBuilderFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
	Document doc = docBuilder.parse(new File("book.xml"));

	// normalize text representation
	doc.getDocumentElement().normalize();
	System.out.println("Root element of the doc is "
		+ doc.getDocumentElement().getNodeName());
	System.out.println("******" + doc.getDocumentElement().getNodeName());
	printNodesList(doc.getDocumentElement());

    }// end of main

    private static void printNodesList(Node node) {
	if (node.hasChildNodes()) {
	    NodeList children = node.getChildNodes();
	    for (int i = 0; i < children.getLength(); i++) {
		System.out.println(children.item(i));
		if (children.item(i).hasChildNodes()) {
		    printNodesList(children.item(i));
		}
	    }
	}
    }
}

[DonCash]

Cheers mate

Once I knew that what I was looking for is called an XML 'Attribute'

I worked it out and used this:

String maturity = fstElmnt.getAttribute("xc:value");