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 Java APIs, while giving you everything you need, are pretty ridiculous to use as you can see. You might check out Xsylum for something more straightforward:

(Guessing how your XML is structured):

List elements = Xsylum.elementFor(xmlFile).getAll("wfs:member");
for (XmlElement e : elements)
  String dataType = e.get("omso").get("om").attribute("xlink");

As suggested elsewhere, you also might want to just use XPath to extract what you're after, which is also straightforward with Xsylum:

List values = Xsylum.documentFor(xmlFile).values("//omso/om/@href");