Using Java to parse XML

Question

I have made a PHP script that parses an XML file. This is not easy to use and I wanted to implement it in Java.

Inside the first element there are various count of

Answer 1

The easiest way, if performance is not a main concern, is probably XPath. With XPath, you can find nodes and attributes simply by specifying a path.

XPathFactory xPathfactory = XPathFactory.newInstance();
XPath xpath = xPathfactory.newXPath();
XPathExpression expr = xpath.compile();
NodeList nl = (NodeList) expr.evaluate(doc, XPathConstants.NODESET);

The xpath_expression could be as simple as

"string(//member/observedProperty/@href)"

For more information about XPath, XPath Tutorial from W3Schools is pretty good.