Parsing XML from website to an Android device

Question

I am starting an Android application that will parse XML from the web. I\'ve created a few Android apps but they\'ve never involved parsing XML and I was wondering if anyone had

Answer 1

There are three types of parsing I know: DOM, SAX and XMLPullParsing.

In my example here you need the URL and the parent node of the XML element.

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

    NodeList nodeList1 = doc.getElementsByTagName("parent node here");
    for (int i = 0; i < nodeList1.getLength(); i++) {
        Node node = nodeList1.item(i);
    }
} catch(Exception e) {

}

Also try this.