How to read an XML file with Java?

Question

I don\'t need to read complex XML files. I just want to read the following configuration file with a simplest XML reader

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Answer 1

You could use a simple DOM parser to read the xml representation.

DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();

DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
dom = db.parse("config.xml");

Answer 2

I like jdom:

SAXBuilder parser = new SAXBuilder();
Document docConfig = parser.build("config.xml");
Element elConfig = docConfig.getRootElement();
String host = elConfig.getChildText("host");

Answer 3

If you want to be able to read and write objects to XML directly, you can use XStream