Question

I have a an xml document that I have saved in String. And the String is something like this:

<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/\" standalone=\"no\"?><soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv=\"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/\"><soapenv:Header xmlns:wsa=\"http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing\"><axis2:ServiceGroupId xmlns:axis2=\"http://ws.apache.org/namespaces/axis2\" wsa:IsReferenceParameter=\"true\">urn:uuid:2BC5F552AF3179755C1348038695049</axis2:ServiceGroupId><wsa:To>http://localhost:8081/axis2/services/TCAQSRBase</wsa:To><wsa:MessageID>urn:uuid:599362E68F35A38AFA1348038695733</wsa:MessageID><wsa:Action>http://www.transcat-plm.com/TCAQSRBase/TCAQSR_BAS_ServerGetOsVariable</wsa:Action></soapenv:Header><soapenv:Body><ns1:TCAQSR_BAS_ServerGetOsVariableInput xmlns:ns1=\"http://www.transcat-plm.com/TCAQSRBase/\" xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xsi:type=\"ns1:TCAQSR_BAS_ServerGetOsVariableInputType\"><ns1:TCAQSR_BAS_BaseServerGetInputKey>USERNAME</ns1:TCAQSR_BAS_BaseServerGetInputKey></ns1:TCAQSR_BAS_ServerGetOsVariableInput></soapenv:Body></soapenv:Envelope>

I dont know how it would represent in the string.

But I would want to extract the term between <axis2:ServiceGroupId xmlns:axis2="http://ws.apache.org/namespaces/axis2"> and </axis2:ServiceGroupId>
Which is a urn:uuid: and would like to save the result in a String. I know of xpath, but in my case, i cannot use xpath.

And would really appreciate any help.

Thanks a lot in advance.

Answer 1

int startPos = xmlString.indexOf("<axis2...>") + "<axis2...>".length();
int endPos = xmlString.indexOf("</value2...>");
String term = xmlString.substring(startPos,endPos);

I hope I get your question right.
You can do it in one line too.