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copied!<p>reading xml is quite simple.</p> <pre><code>import java.io.File; import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.w3c.dom.*; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder; import org.xml.sax.SAXException; import org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; public class ReadAndPrintXMLFile{ public static void main (String argv []){ try { DocumentBuilderFactory docBuilderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); DocumentBuilder docBuilder = docBuilderFactory.newDocumentBuilder(); Document doc = docBuilder.parse (new File("book.xml")); // normalize text representation doc.getDocumentElement ().normalize (); System.out.println ("Root element of the doc is " + doc.getDocumentElement().getNodeName()); NodeList listOfPersons = doc.getElementsByTagName("person"); int totalPersons = listOfPersons.getLength(); System.out.println("Total no of people : " + totalPersons); for(int s=0; s<listOfPersons.getLength() ; s++){ Node firstPersonNode = listOfPersons.item(s); if(firstPersonNode.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE){ Element firstPersonElement = (Element)firstPersonNode; //------- NodeList firstNameList = firstPersonElement.getElementsByTagName("first"); Element firstNameElement = (Element)firstNameList.item(0); NodeList textFNList = firstNameElement.getChildNodes(); System.out.println("First Name : " + ((Node)textFNList.item(0)).getNodeValue().trim()); //------- NodeList lastNameList = firstPersonElement.getElementsByTagName("last"); Element lastNameElement = (Element)lastNameList.item(0); NodeList textLNList = lastNameElement.getChildNodes(); System.out.println("Last Name : " + ((Node)textLNList.item(0)).getNodeValue().trim()); //---- NodeList ageList = firstPersonElement.getElementsByTagName("age"); Element ageElement = (Element)ageList.item(0); NodeList textAgeList = ageElement.getChildNodes(); System.out.println("Age : " + ((Node)textAgeList.item(0)).getNodeValue().trim()); //------ }//end of if clause }//end of for loop with s var }catch (SAXParseException err) { System.out.println ("** Parsing error" + ", line " + err.getLineNumber () + ", uri " + err.getSystemId ()); System.out.println(" " + err.getMessage ()); }catch (SAXException e) { Exception x = e.getException (); ((x == null) ? e : x).printStackTrace (); }catch (Throwable t) { t.printStackTrace (); } //System.exit (0); }//end of main } </code></pre>

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