Use XML with sitelist.. !! It will work fine.
No idea about document builder.
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:34 PM, Bozzified <bozi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone.
>
> I am trying to get a hang of XML parsing and can't get this to show me the
> right elements as I'm fairly new to Android/Java dev. Would appreciate
> some guidance.
>
> I've build a class that gets the custom xml url and needs to parse it and
> fill ArrayList with values. After trying several versions I can't wrap my
> head around parsing nodes and extracting element values.
>
> This is what I have
>
> DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.*newInstance*();
> DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
> Document doc = builder.parse(feedURL);
>
> // get xml document root element
> Element root = doc.getDocumentElement();
>
> // get node list of all elements with tag name item
> NodeList items = root.getElementsByTagName("item");
>
> ArrayList<String[]> photoSet = *new* ArrayList<String[]>();
>
> *for* (*int* i = 0; i < items.getLength(); i++) {
>
> Node itemNode = items.item(i);
>
> NodeList itemChildNodes = itemNode.getChildNodes();
>
> Node itemChildNode = itemChildNodes.item(2);
>
> String value = itemChildNode.getNodeValue();
>
> Log.*d*("ITEM ELEMENT VALUE", "Node value for item["+i+"]
> -> "+value);
>
> }
>
> here's what the XML looks like:
>
> <gallery>
> <item> <photoid>509</photoid> <url>
> http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/320622_10150298438271744_326149431743_8468654_1542995730_n.jpg
> </url> <title>Foster The People DC</title> <description></description>
> <category></category> <dateupdated>2012-01-24 23:31:58</dateupdated>
> <dateupdated2>Wed Jan 25 07:31:58 GMT-0800 2012</dateupdated2>
>
> </item>
>
> <item> <photoid>508</photoid> <url>
> http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/308152_10150298438346744_326149431743_8468655_312468158_n.jpg
> </url> <title>Foster The People Philly</title> <description></description>
> <category></category> <dateupdated>2012-01-24 23:31:44</dateupdated>
> <dateupdated2>Wed Jan 25 07:31:44 GMT-0800 2012</dateupdated2></item>
> </gallery>
>
> So now why I put itemChildNodes.item(2) is basically because I thought
> that would give me back 3rd subchild element of that node which is in this
> case <title> tag under <item> node
>
> Would someone be kind enough to educate me on why this is not working and
> what's the best way to do this. The reason I'm not using SAX is because
> these XML files will be fairly small so I went with DocumentBuilder and
> also I wanted to learn both ways.
>
>
> Many thanks good people.
>
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