This Java example shows how to read and parse an XML file.
SAX Parser is faster and uses less memory than DOM parser.
file.xml
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <company> <staff> <firstname>prasanna</firstname> <lastname>sherekar</lastname> <nickname>pashyaa</nickname> <salary>100000</salary> </staff> <staff> <firstname>james</firstname> <lastname>anderson</lastname> <nickname>lolo</nickname> <salary>200000</salary> </staff> </company> |
ReadXMLFile.java
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import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser; import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory; import org.xml.sax.Attributes; import org.xml.sax.SAXException; import org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler; public class ReadXMLFile { public static void main(String argv[]) { try { SAXParserFactory factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance(); SAXParser saxParser = factory.newSAXParser(); DefaultHandler handler = new DefaultHandler() { boolean bfname = false; boolean blname = false; boolean bnname = false; boolean bsalary = false; public void startElement(String uri, String localName, String qName, Attributes attributes) throws SAXException { System.out.println("Start Element :" + qName); if (qName.equalsIgnoreCase("FIRSTNAME")) { bfname = true; } if (qName.equalsIgnoreCase("LASTNAME")) { blname = true; } if (qName.equalsIgnoreCase("NICKNAME")) { bnname = true; } if (qName.equalsIgnoreCase("SALARY")) { bsalary = true; } } public void endElement(String uri, String localName, String qName) throws SAXException { System.out.println("End Element :" + qName); } public void characters(char ch[], int start, int length) throws SAXException { if (bfname) { System.out.println("First Name : " + new String(ch, start, length)); bfname = false; } if (blname) { System.out.println("Last Name : " + new String(ch, start, length)); blname = false; } if (bnname) { System.out.println("Nick Name : " + new String(ch, start, length)); bnname = false; } if (bsalary) { System.out.println("Salary : " + new String(ch, start, length)); bsalary = false; } } }; saxParser.parse("c:\\file.xml", handler); } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } } |