Question

First, I have an xml file in res/xml

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <rootelement1>
 <subelement>
 Hello XML Sub-Element 1
 </subelement>
 <subelement>
  Hello XML Sub-Element 2
  <subsubelement>Sub Sub Element</subsubelement>
  </subelement>
 </rootelement1>

I need to read all content of this file into string value (like read text file to the end and put to string)
I use XmlResourceParser but it does not help.

       StringBuffer stringBuffer = new StringBuffer();
       Resources res = context.getResources();
       XmlResourceParser xpp = res.getXml(R.xml.myxmlfile);


       xpp.next();
       int eventType = xpp.getEventType();
       while (eventType != XmlPullParser.END_DOCUMENT)
       { 
           //add all text line by line, especially "<,>", attribute...
       }

How can I solve that? Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Why are you using XMLResourceParser when you have to read it as a text file? Why not simply use a BufferedReader with StringBuilder? However, to read a file from xml resources folder, try moving it to the raw, or (if by any means possible) to the assets folder first.

Edit:
To copy the respective file, you may use this link: Copying XML from XML Resource to Device Storage