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copied!<p>The usual tool to use for transforming XML to HTML is XSLT. Search SO for XSLT tutorial and you'll get some good results.</p> <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3718381/xslt-transforming-performance">Here is another question</a> showing how one developer used XSLT on Android. You can also search for examples of the use of <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/javax/xml/transform/Transformer.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Transformer</a> in Java, as in <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/java/news/javaxslt_0801.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this helpful article</a>:</p> <pre><code>// JAXP reads data using the Source interface Source xmlSource = new StreamSource(xmlFile); Source xsltSource = new StreamSource(xsltFile); // the factory pattern supports different XSLT processors TransformerFactory transFact = TransformerFactory.newInstance(); Transformer trans = transFact.newTransformer(xsltSource); trans.transform(xmlSource, new StreamResult(System.out)); </code></pre> <p><strong>Update:</strong> For older versions of the Android java API:<br> <a href="http://ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/x-android/index.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">This article</a> shows how to use a <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/javax/xml/parsers/SAXParser.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">SAX parser</a> to parse the input XML, then use <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/org/xmlpull/v1/XmlSerializer.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">XmlSerializer</a> to output XML. The latter could easily output whatever XHTML you want. Both are available since API level 1.</p> <p>Unfortunately I don't see a way to do XPath in API level 3, but if your input XML isn't too complex you should be able to code your own transformations. I know you "don't want to parse it and generate view after", but if you mean you don't want to even use an XML parser that's provided by Android, then I don't know of any alternative.</p> <p><strong>Update 2:</strong> I just learned about <a href="http://www.xom.nu/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">XOM, which supports a subset of XPath</a>. <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2290945/writing-xml-on-android">This question</a> shows someone using XOM on Android (to write XML) with API level 4. You could take advantage of the XPath features, as well as the serialization features. It requires a small external library, XOM's jar. I don't know if it's compatible with API level 3.</p>

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