Question

Somehow the parsed XML file seems to be wrong or am I doing something wrong?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<root>
    <quests>
       <quest id="test">
           <question>Just a little sentence.</question>
        </quest>
    </quests>
</root>

I parse it like that:

File file = new File("file.xml");

DocumentBuilderFactory dF = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
dF.setNamespaceAware(true);
DocumentBuilder dB = dF.newDocumentBuilder();

Document XML = dB.parse(file);

// ------------------------------------------
Element doc = XML.getDocumentElement();
System.out.println(doc.getChildNodes());

Element dx = (Element) doc.getElementsByTagName("quest").item(0);
System.out.println(dx.getAttribute("id"));
System.out.println(dx.getAttribute("id").length());
System.out.println(dx.getAttributes().getLength());

And this is what I get:

[root: null]

0
0

How could that be? How could I parse attributes of elements/tags/nodes?

Answer 1

I just created a new XML file and with that it works!
I think the problem was maybe an hidden character inside the id
which causes the error…