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Need help in structuring things in XML file

• have a structure like follows:

  Question0 : What is ur name?
  Answer0: Tina
    Question0.0 : What are your hobbies?
     Answer0.0.0 : reading 
         Question0.0.0.0 :What do you like in reading.?
                Answer0.. : .....
     Answer0.0.1 : Dancing
         Question0.0.0.1 :which dance do you like?
  ...........
  Answer1:Roger 
  ...........same question answer as above.
  

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I want to make a datastructure for the above structure which should be able to give me the parent(question) of an answer and also the parent(answer) of a question.can’t think of a solution..?

Deletion and addition:
No need to care about.

A question can have multiple answers. No, every question must have at least one answer. Yes, every question decending from an answer.

Also how I can do this structure numbering very efficiently?

Answer 1

I would have followup questions:

class Question {
    static final String DEFAULT = "DefaultFollowup";
    String questionText;
    Map<String,Question> responsesAndFollowups;
    Question(String text) {
       this.questionText = text;
       responsesAndFollowups = new HashMap<String,Question>();
    }
    void addFollowup(String response, Question followup) {
        responsesAndFollowups.put(response,followup);
    }
    void setDefaultFollowup(Question followup) {
        addFollowup(DEFAULT,followup);
    }
    Question getFollowup(String response) {
        Question followup = responsesAndFollowups.get(response);
        if(followup == null) followup = responsesAndFollowups.get(DEFAULT);
        return followup;
    }
}

Later, you can do this

Question name = new Question("What is your name?");
Question hobbies = new Question("What is your favorite hobby?");
Question dancing = new Question("What is your favorite dance?");
Question reading = new Question("What is your favorite book?");

name.setDefaultFollowup(hobbies);
hobbies.setDefaultFollowup(reading); // ask people about reading by default
hobbies.addFollowup("Dancing",dancing); // if they say they like dancing, ask that instead