Question

I have an XML file in the drawable-folder. I want parse the XML-file using XML-parsing(sax parsing).
I used following code for that:

private void getDataFromFile(int mntFile) throws SAXException, IOException {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        SAXParserFactory factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
        System.out.println("in method");
        try {
            saxParser = factory.newSAXParser();
        } catch (ParserConfigurationException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        DefaultHandler handler = new DefaultHandler() {

        boolean id = false;
        boolean name = false;
        boolean dep = false;


        public void startElement(String uri, String localName,String qName, 
                    Attributes attributes) throws SAXException {
            //System.out.println("in start");
            if (localName.equals("DOCTORID")) {
                id = true;
            }

            if (localName.equals("NAME")) {
                name = true;
            }

            if (localName.equals("DEAPRTMENT")) {
                dep = true;
            } 
        }

        public void endElement(String uri, String localName,
            String qName) throws SAXException { 
        }

        public void characters(char ch[], int start, int length) throws SAXException {

            if (id) {
                id = false;
            }

            if (name) {
                System.out.println("Name : " + new String(ch, start, length));
                mArryLstDoctorNames.add(new String(ch, start, length));
                Log.d("doctor","---"+mArryLstDoctorNames);
                name = false;
            }

            if (dep) {
                dep = false;
            }

        }

         };
           saxParser.parse(R.drawable.myxml, handler);
    }

But here saxParser.parse(R.drawable.myxml, handler); is showing compilation error.
It is the same code working for XML-files, which are on sdcard.

Answer 1

You can’t store it to drawable folder, it is part of your package, store it elsewhere, yourpackage/data or SD card.
R.drawble.xml is not use a input source.

First you need to read the file, then pass it to a string, after that you can parse it.

This is how:

FileInputStream fis = openFileInput(yourfilepath);
        InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(fis);
        char[] inputBuffer = new char[reasonableLenght];
        // Fill the Buffer with data from the file
        isr.read(inputBuffer);
        String xml_data = new String(inputBuffer);
     //then you can do
saxParser.parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(xml_data)), handler);