Question

I’m building an android app that communicates to a web server and am struggling with the following scenario:

Given ONE line of XML in a String eg:

"<test one="1" two="2" />"

I would like to extract the values into a HashMap so that:

map.get("one") = "1"
map.get("two") = "2"

I already can do this with a full XML document using the SAX Parser, this complains when i try to just give it the above string with a MalformedUrlException: Protocol not found

DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder builder;
Document doc = null;
builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
doc = builder.parse("<test one="1" two="2" />"); //here

I realize some regex could do this but Id really rather do it properly.

The same behaviour can be found at http://metacpan.org/pod/XML::Simple#XMLin which is what the web server uses.

Can anyone help? Thanks 😀

Answer 1

DocumentBuilder.parse(String) treats the string as a URL. Try this instead:

Document doc = builder.parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(text)));

(where text contains the XML, of course).