Question

I have a sample XML (Android platform) and I wanted to know the easiest and most efficient approach to get the node value of the node “e”. Please help.

<a>
<b>
<c>
<e>data</e>

</c>
</b>
<b>

</b>

</a>

Answer 1

Use XPath.

See – http://developer.android.com/reference/javax/xml/xpath/package-summary.html

The XPath expression to grab the correct element would be:

/a/b/c/e

You could coalesce the resulting node into a String to get the textual value.