First load the XML document using schema file of your xml
/**
* This method reads in the xmlFile, validates it against the
* schemaFile, and if valid, loads it into a WhitespaceFreeXMLDoc
* and returns it, which helps because that's a much easier
* format for us to deal with.
*
* @param xmlFile Path and name of xml file to load.
*
* @param schemaFile Path and name of schema file to use for validation.
*
* @return A normalized Document object fully loaded with the data found
* in the xmlFile.
*
* @throws InvalidXMLFileFormatException Thrown if the xml file validation fails.
*/
public Document loadXMLDocument(String xmlFile, String xsdFile)
throws InvalidXMLFileFormatException
{
// FIRST VALIDATE
boolean isValid = validateXMLDoc(xmlFile, xsdFile);
if (!isValid)
{
throw new InvalidXMLFileFormatException(xmlFile, xsdFile);
}
// THIS IS JAVA API STUFF
DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
try
{
// FIRST RETRIEVE AND LOAD THE FILE INTO A TREE
DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
Document xmlDoc = db.parse(xmlFile);
xmlDoc.getDocumentElement().normalize();
// LET'S RETURN THE DOC
return xmlDoc;
}
// THESE ARE XML-RELATED ERRORS THAT COULD HAPPEN DURING
// LOADING AND PARSING IF THE XML FILE IS NOT WELL FORMED
// OR IS NOW WHERE AND WHAT WE SAY IT IS
catch(ParserConfigurationException | SAXException | IOException pce)
{
throw new InvalidXMLFileFormatException(xmlFile);
}
}
after having the xml in Document format, you can get that specific node using this method
/**
* This method extracts the data found in the doc argument that
* corresponds to the tagName and returns it as text. If no data
* is found, null is returned. Note that this method is only good
* for elements that are unique to an XML file, meaning there is only
* one of them.
*
* @param doc Fully-loaded DOM Document corresponding to a loaded
* XML file from which we are loading the data.
*
* @param tagName Name of the tag (i.e. field name) we are looking
* to load data for.
*
* @return The data in the doc that corresponds to the tagName element.
* Note that if no data is found, null is returned.
*/
public String getTextData(Document doc, String tagName)
{
// IT WAS FOUND, SO GET THE DATA
Node node = getNodeWithName(doc, tagName);
if (node == null)
{
return null;
}
else
{
String data = node.getTextContent();
return data;
}
}
If you want to get the node itself instead of data in the node which is BOM
/**
* This method can be used to get the node in the document
* that is an element of type tagName. null is returned
* if none is found.
*
* @param doc The XML document to search
*
* @param tagName The name of the XML element/tag to
* search for.
*
* @return The first node found named tagName. If none is
* found in the document, null is returned.
*/
public Node getNodeWithName(Document doc, String tagName)
{
// GET THE NODE FOR THE tagName ELEMENT
NodeList nodeList = doc.getElementsByTagName(tagName);
// IF NOT FOUND, DON'T GO ON
if (nodeList.getLength() == 0)
{
return null;
}
// IT WAS FOUND, SO GET THE DATA
Node node = nodeList.item(0);
return node;
}
let me know if you have any further questions