Question

I want to parse this xml and get the result between the tag… but i cant get the result my xml is

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"><soap:Body><loginResponse xmlns="https://comm1.get.com/"><loginResult>true</loginResult><result>success</result></loginResponse></soap:Body></soap:Envelope>

The handler

public class MyXmlContentHandler extends DefaultHandler {
    String result;
    private String currentNode;
    private String currentValue = null;
    public String getFavicon() {
        return result;
    }
    @Override
    public void startElement(String uri, String localName, String qName,
            Attributes attributes) throws SAXException {


        if (localName.equalsIgnoreCase("result")) {
            //offerList = new BFOfferList();
            this.result = new String();

        }
    }

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


        if (localName.equalsIgnoreCase("result")) {
            result = localName;

        } 
    }

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

         String value = new String(ch, start, length);

         if (currentNode.equals("result")){
            result = value;
            return;
         }


}



}

Any changes needed

Answer 1

When you found the start tag you are looking for, “characters” is called one or more times. You have to collect the data not overwrite it. Change

if (currentNode.equals("result")){
        result = value;
        return;
     }

to

if (currentNode.equals("result")){
        result += value;
        return;
     }

Or use StringBuilder to do it. Furthermore, you should remove this, it seems to overwrite your result String:

result = localName;

EDIT:

public class MyXmlContentHandler extends DefaultHandler {

private String result = "";
private String currentNode;

public String getFavicon() {
    return result;
}

@Override
public void startElement(String uri, String localName, String qName, Attributes attributes) throws SAXException {
    currentNode = localName;
}

@Override
public void endElement(String uri, String localName, String qName) throws SAXException {
    currentNode = null;
}

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

    String value = new String(ch, start, length);

    if ("result".equals(currentNode)){
        result += value;
    }
}
}