Question

Below is my XML structure

<values>
<inputs>
 <input>one</input>
 <input>two</input>
</inputs>
<inputs>
 <input>one</input>
 <input>three</input>
</inputs>
</values>

GOAL : Want to put all input node values into a collection

I can write SAX/DOM parser, read based on the node name and put each value into the collection.

Is that the most efficient way?

Could something similar to XmlDocument in c# be used?

Thank you 🙂

Answer 1

Yes.

import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;

are the classes you need.

Here is a quick tutorial.

But let’s get it straight. SAX based parser is more efficient 🙂 XmlDocument type based parsing is more …. convinient. 🙂