XMl Parsing With SAX Parser

example.xml

[sourcecode language="xml"]
<maintag>
<item>
<name>AndroidPeople</name>
<website category="android">www.androidpeople.com</website>
</item>
<item>
<name>iPhoneAppDeveloper</name>
<website category="iPhone">www.iphone-app-developer.com</website>
</item>
</maintag>
[/sourcecode]

 XMLParsingExample.java
 

package com.androidpeople.xml.parsing;
import java.net.URL;
import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser;
import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
import org.xml.sax.XMLReader;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.widget.LinearLayout;
import android.widget.TextView;
public class XMLParsingExample extends Activity {
/** Create Object For SiteList Class */
SitesList sitesList = null;
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
/** Create a new layout to display the view */
LinearLayout layout = new LinearLayout(this);
layout.setOrientation(1);
/** Create a new textview array to display the results */
TextView name[];
TextView website[];
TextView category[];
try {
/** Handling XML */
SAXParserFactory spf = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
SAXParser sp = spf.newSAXParser();
XMLReader xr = sp.getXMLReader();
/** Send URL to parse XML Tags */
URL sourceUrl = new URL(
"http://www.androidpeople.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/example.xml");
/** Create handler to handle XML Tags ( extends DefaultHandler ) */
MyXMLHandler myXMLHandler = new MyXMLHandler();
xr.setContentHandler(myXMLHandler);
xr.parse(new InputSource(sourceUrl.openStream()));
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println("XML Pasing Excpetion = " + e);
}
/** Get result from MyXMLHandler SitlesList Object */
sitesList = MyXMLHandler.sitesList;
/** Assign textview array lenght by arraylist size */
name = new TextView[sitesList.getName().size()];
website = new TextView[sitesList.getName().size()];
category = new TextView[sitesList.getName().size()];
/** Set the result text in textview and add it to layout */
for (int i = 0; i < sitesList.getName().size(); i++) {
name[i] = new TextView(this);
name[i].setText("Name = "+sitesList.getName().get(i));
website[i] = new TextView(this);
website[i].setText("Website = "+sitesList.getWebsite().get(i));
category[i] = new TextView(this);
category[i].setText("Website Category = "+sitesList.getCategory().get(i));
layout.addView(name[i]);
layout.addView(website[i]);
layout.addView(category[i]);
}
/** Set the layout view to display */
setContentView(layout);
}
}
[/sourcecode]

MyXMLHandler.java


package com.androidpeople.xml.parsing;
import org.xml.sax.Attributes;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler;
public class MyXMLHandler extends DefaultHandler {
Boolean currentElement = false;
String currentValue = null;
public static SitesList sitesList = null;
public static SitesList getSitesList() {
return sitesList;
}
public static void setSitesList(SitesList sitesList) {
MyXMLHandler.sitesList = sitesList;
}
/** Called when tag starts ( ex:- <name>AndroidPeople</name>
* -- <name> )*/
@Override
public void startElement(String uri, String localName, String qName,
Attributes attributes) throws SAXException {
currentElement = true;
if (localName.equals("maintag"))
{
/** Start */
sitesList = new SitesList();
} else if (localName.equals("website")) {
/** Get attribute value */
String attr = attributes.getValue("category");
sitesList.setCategory(attr);
}
}
/** Called when tag closing ( ex:- <name>AndroidPeople</name>
* -- </name> )*/
@Override
public void endElement(String uri, String localName, String qName)
throws SAXException {
currentElement = false;
/** set value */
if (localName.equalsIgnoreCase("name"))
sitesList.setName(currentValue);
else if (localName.equalsIgnoreCase("website"))
sitesList.setWebsite(currentValue);
}
/** Called to get tag characters ( ex:- <name>AndroidPeople</name>
* -- to get AndroidPeople Character ) */
@Override
public void characters(char[] ch, int start, int length)
throws SAXException {
if (currentElement) {
currentValue = new String(ch, start, length);
currentElement = false;
}
}
}
[/sourcecode]

SitesList.java


package com.androidpeople.xml.parsing;
import java.util.ArrayList;
/** Contains getter and setter method for varialbles */
public class SitesList {
/** Variables */
private ArrayList<String> name = new ArrayList<String>();
private ArrayList<String> website = new ArrayList<String>();
private ArrayList<String> category = new ArrayList<String>();
/** In Setter method default it will return arraylist
* change that to add */
public ArrayList<String> getName() {
return name;
}
public void setName(String name) {
this.name.add(name);
}
public ArrayList<String> getWebsite() {
return website;
}
public void setWebsite(String website) {
this.website.add(website);
}
public ArrayList<String> getCategory() {
return category;
}
public void setCategory(String category) {
this.category.add(category);
}
}
[/sourcecode]