Question

My Xml File looks like this:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE pointList SYSTEM "point.dtd">
<pointList>
<point unit="mm">
<x>2</x>
<y>3</y>
</point>

<point unit="cm">
<x>9</x>
<y>3</y>
</point>

<point unit="px">
<x>4</x>
<y>7</y>
</point>

</pointList>

When i try to get attributes of tag point:

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;


import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;

import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.NamedNodeMap;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;


public class TryXml {
    public static void main (String [] args) {
        DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
        DocumentBuilder builder = null;
        Document doc = null;
        try {
            builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
        }
        catch (ParserConfigurationException e){
            System.out.println(e.getMessage());
        }
        File f = new File("p1.xml");
        try {
            doc=builder.parse(f);
        }
        catch (SAXException e){
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        catch (IOException e){
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        Element root = doc.getDocumentElement();
        System.out.println(root.getTagName());

        System.out.println("****************");


        NodeList nList = root.getChildNodes();
        for (int i=0;i<nList.getLength();i++) {
        if(nList.item(i) instanceof Element)

        System.out.println(nList.item(i).getAttributes());
    }

    }
    }

all i get is something like the address:

com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.dom.AttributeMap@3214512e
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.dom.AttributeMap@53ddbcb1
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.dom.AttributeMap@28f337b

can anyone give me a hint on how to get the attributes of point and maybe other inner tags?

Answer 1

You could replace your println with the following:

System.out.println(((Element) nList.item(i)).getAttribute("unit"));

This should give you the “unit” attribute of the current element.