Question

I searched the net for hours, but I’m stuck.

I used a tutorial for parsing xml, i came to the conclusion it would be best for me to use the DOM xml parser.
Mainly cause the content i parse contains only 30 items.

the xml looks as folowing:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<sliderlist>
<item>
<urlslide>http://www.google.com</urlslide>
</item>
<item>
<urlslide>http://www.stackoverflow.com</urlslide>
</item>
</sliderlist>

The DOM parser (most from a tutorial):

TextView urlslide[];


        try {

            URL url = new URL("http://www.mydomain.com/my.xml");
            DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
            DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
            Document doc = db.parse(new InputSource(url.openStream()));
            doc.getDocumentElement().normalize();

            NodeList nodeList = doc.getElementsByTagName("item");

            /** Assign textview array lenght by arraylist size */
            urlslide = new TextView[nodeList.getLength()];


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

                Node node = nodeList.item(i);

                urlslide[i] = new TextView(this);


                Element fstElmnt = (Element) node;
                NodeList nameList = fstElmnt.getElementsByTagName("urlslide");
                Element nameElement = (Element) nameList.item(0);
                nameList = nameElement.getChildNodes();
                urlslide[i].setText(((Node) nameList.item(0)).getNodeValue());


                //layout.addView(urlslide[i]);


            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.out.println("XML Pasing Excpetion = " + e);
        }

And then the part where i need the parsed content fill me array (what now uses the xml inside the values/res folder):

        mTimer=new CountDownTimer(15000, 1000) {

    String[] myArray = getResources().getStringArray(R.array.testArray);
    //String[] myArray={"http://www.upc.nl/","http://www.google.com","http://www.flyerwall.nl"};    
     //<- String should be read from landingpage.


        int currentIndex=0; 
        public void onTick(long millisUntilFinished) {
             //if (currentIndex<myArray.length) {
                //number.setText("seconds remaining: " +  millisUntilFinished / 1000);
                //currentIndex++;
             //}
        }

        public void onFinish() {
            if (currentIndex<myArray.length) {
                //number.setText("done!");
                mWebView.loadUrl(myArray[currentIndex]);
                currentIndex++;
            } else {
                currentIndex=0;//reset current url to 0
                if (currentIndex<myArray.length)
                //number.setText("done!");
                mWebView.loadUrl(myArray[currentIndex]);
                currentIndex++;
                mTimer.start(); //activate the loop
            }

                mTimer.start();//first time start

        }
     };

I went to so much sample codes i that i not got a clue anymore,but my guts say it should be so simple to complete.

Answer 1

Finally i figured it out:

try {

    URL url = new URL("http://www.mydomain.com/my.xml");
    DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
    DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
    Document doc = db.parse(new InputSource(url.openStream()));
    doc.getDocumentElement().normalize();

    NodeList nodeList = doc.getElementsByTagName("item");

    final List<String> urlList = new ArrayList<String>();

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

    Node node = nodeList.item(i);



    Element fstElmnt = (Element) node;
    NodeList nameList = fstElmnt.getElementsByTagName("urlslide");
    Element nameElement = (Element) nameList.item(0);
    nameList = nameElement.getChildNodes();

    urlList.add(((Node) nameList.item(0)).getNodeValue());


    }


    mTimer=new CountDownTimer(15000, 1000) {

    Object[] myArray = urlList.toArray();
    .........more code


    };//CountDownTimer ENDS
    } catch (Exception e) {
        System.out.println("XML Pasing Exception = " + e);
        }