How to read properties from xml file with java?

Question

I have the following xml file:

Answer 1

I would just use JAXB to bind data into set of objects that have structure similar to your XML document.

Something like:

@XmlRootElement("resources")
public class Resources {
  public List resource = new ArrayList(); // important, can't be left null
}
public class Resource {
  @XmlAttribute public String id;
  public List property;
}
// and so on

one possible gotcha is regarding List serialization; there are two modes, wrapped and unwrapped; in your case, you want "unwrapped". Javadocs for annotations should show annotation to define this.