Question

Previously in my Android project I passed a URL String (Web Address) to the XMLReader to parse. But now I want to pass the XML File from my the project itself for this purpose.

1. Where should I place the XML File (Note:- After installing it on a device, I expect to update the contents of the XML File weekly. Placement of the XML File should be flexible for this)
2. How can I retrieve data from the XML File to the XMLReader

Previous (Working)

        SAXParserFactory spf = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
        SAXParser sp = spf.newSAXParser();
        XMLReader xr = sp.getXMLReader();

        URL sourceUrl;

        sourceUrl = new URL(
        "http://www.androidpeople.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/example.xml");


        XMLHandler myXMLHandler = new XMLHandler();
        xr.setContentHandler(myXMLHandler);
        xr.parse(new InputSource(sourceUrl.openStream()));

Answer 1

To answer your second question, you can construct an InputSource from a FileInputStream, similar to what you are doing with the url. I suggest to also set the systemId to get nicer error reporting and in case you need to resolve relative paths from the xml.

InputStream in = new FileInputStream(file);
try {
    InputSource is = new InputSource(in);
    is.setSystemId(file.getAbsolutePath());
    xr.parse(is);
} finally {
    in.close();
}