Question

I have been using this code to parse xml till now. Its was working fine in previous version of android(till 2.3.3).

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NodeList list = element.getElementsByTagName("course");         

Element entry;                              
Element title;

if(list != null && list.getLength() > 0){


     for(int i=0;i < list.getLength(); i++){

        entry = (Element)list.item(i);                              
        title = (Element)entry.getElementsByTagName("course").item(0);  

        biz_name_p = title.getAttribute("biz_name");

    }
}

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I have Multiple tags with name “course” so i am taking it in a List. Inside loop im checking for elements course and extracting several string values from it.

It throws NullPointerException when i try to getAttribute("biz_name") or any other attributes.

This was working fine in previous version until ICS…

When i Replace “course” with primary tag in the list(which only repeats once in whole xml),
i am receiving the string value but only once… Did they change any thing in Dom parser ??

EDIT
following is the xml im trying to parse..

<golf> 
    <course biz_name="Club Circle Golf Course"/>  
    <course biz_name="Club Circle Golf Course1"/>
    <course biz_name="Club Circle Golf Course2"/>
</golf>

Answer 1

I don’t understand why getElementsByTagName is called multiple times. So can you try this:

NodeList list = element.getElementsByTagName("course");         

Element entry;

if(list != null && list.getLength() > 0){

     for(int i=0;i < list.getLength(); i++){

        entry = (Element)list.item(i);
        biz_name_p = entry.getAttribute("biz_name");
    }
}