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Thanks for previous replies.

I am parsing XML file using java(SAXParser), i am not sure how to parse the attribute value(meta data) using attribute value. I given two main categoy
<category name="XYZ" /> <category name="ABC"/>
‘

            <subcategory name="" loc="C://program files" link="www.sample.com" parentnode="XYZ"/>
            <subcategory name="" loc="C://program files" link="http://" parentnode="ABC"/>`

In sub category i have linked the main category with parentnode attribute. my question is i want to get all the attribute which is only contains particular parent attribute. (Ex)i want all attribute which is only resides in parent attribute “ABC”. is this possible to get a value.

Answer 1

Does the code below is solution for your problem?

XML

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<categories>
    <category name="ABC">
        <subcategory name="123" 
            loc="C://program files" 
            link="www.sample.com" 
            parentnode="ABC"/>
        <subcategory name="456" 
            loc="C://program files" 
            link="http://" 
            parentnode="ABC"/>
    </category>

    <category name="XYZ"> 
        <subcategory name="123" 
            loc="C://program files" 
            link="www.sample.com" 
            parentnode="XYZ"/>
        <subcategory name="456" 
            loc="C://program files" 
            link="http://abc.com" 
            parentnode="XYZ"/>
    </category>
</categories>

JAVA

package com.stackoverflow;

import java.io.File;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;

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

import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.NamedNodeMap;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;

public class Question6855476 {
private static final String CFG_XML_PATH = "D:\\sample\\path\\question6855476.xml";
private static final String searchArg = "ABC";

public static void main(String[] args) {

    List locList = getLocsByCategoryName(searchArg);
    List linkList = getLinksByCategoryName(searchArg);

    printCollection(locList,"LOC");
    printCollection(linkList,"LINKS");

}

private static void printCollection(List locList, String string) {
    System.out.println();
    System.out.println("### Collection: "+string+"\n");
    if(locList.isEmpty()) {
        System.out.println("\tNo items. Collection is empty.");
    } else {
        for(Object obj: locList) {
            System.out.println("\t"+obj);
        }
    }

}

private static List getLocsByCategoryName(String catName) {
    if(null==catName||catName.length()<=0) {
        System.out.println("ERROR: catName is null/blank");
        return Collections.EMPTY_LIST;
    } else {
        return getSubcatAttrValuesByAttrName("loc", catName);
    }
}

private static List getLinksByCategoryName(String catName) {
    if(null==catName||catName.length()<=0) {
        System.out.println("ERROR: catName is null/blank");
        return Collections.EMPTY_LIST;
    } else {
        return getSubcatAttrValuesByAttrName("link", catName);
    }
}

private static List<Object> getSubcatAttrValuesByAttrName(String attrName, String catName) {

    List<Object> list = new ArrayList<Object>();

    if(null==attrName||attrName.length()<=0) {
        System.out.println("ERROR: attrName is null/blank");
    } else {
        try {
              File file = new File(CFG_XML_PATH);
              DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
              DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
              Document doc = db.parse(file);
              doc.getDocumentElement().normalize();

              NodeList catLst = doc.getElementsByTagName("category");

              for (int i = 0; i < catLst.getLength(); i++) {

                  Node cat = catLst.item(i);

                  NamedNodeMap catAttrMap = cat.getAttributes();
                  Node catAttr = catAttrMap.getNamedItem("name");

                  if(catName.equals(catAttr.getNodeValue())){ // CLUE!!!

                      NodeList subcatLst = cat.getChildNodes();

                      for (int j = 0; j < subcatLst.getLength(); j++) {
                          Node subcat = subcatLst.item(j);
                          NamedNodeMap subcatAttrMap = subcat.getAttributes();

                          if(subcatAttrMap!=null) {
                              Node subcatAttr = subcatAttrMap.getNamedItem(attrName);
                              list.add(subcatAttr.getNodeValue());
                          }
                      }
                  }
              }
        } catch (Exception e) { // FIXME
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
    return list;
}

}

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