Getting an attribute value in xml element

Question

I have an xml string like this and I want to get attribute value of "name" in a loop for each element. How do I do that? I am using javax.xml.parsers library.

<xml>     <Item type="ItemHeader" name="Plan Features" id="id_1"/>     <Item type="Deductible" name="Deductible" id="a">Calendar Year         <Item type="Text" name="Individual" id="b">200</Item>         <Item type="Text" name="Family" id="c">350</Item>     </Item>     <Item lock="|delete|" type="Empty" name="Out-of-Pocket Annual Maximum" id="id_2">         <Item type="Text" name="Individual" id="d">400</Item>         <Item type="Currency" name="Individual Out-of-Network" id="id_5">$320.00</Item>         <Item type="Text" name="Family" id="e">670</Item>     </Item>     <Item type="Text" name="Life Time Maximum" id="u">8000</Item>     <Item type="Text" name="Coinsurance" id="f">60</Item>     <Item type="Text" name="Office Visits" id="g">10</Item>     <Item type="Text" name="Routine Physicals" id="h">12</Item>     <Item type="Text" name="Preventive Care" id="m"/>     <Item type="Text" name="Physician Services" id="i"/>     <Item type="Text" name="Emergency Room Services / Urgent Care" id="j"/>     <Item type="Text" name="Hospital Admission Services" id="k"/>     <Item type="Text" name="Chiropractic" id="n"/>     <Item type="Text" name="Prescription Drugs" id="l"/>     <Item type="Text" name="Specialty Drugs" id="o"/>     <Item type="Currency" name="Custom Field 2" id="id_4">$250.00</Item>     <Item type="Boolean" name="Pre Tax Reduction Available" id="t">false</Item>     <Item type="Boolean" name="Conversion Privilege" id="p">false</Item>     <Item type="ItemHeader" name="Plan Setup" id="id_3"/>     <Item type="Termination" name="Benefit Termination Date" id="q">Immediate</Item>     <Item type="Determination" name="Premium Redetermination Date" id="r">Not Applicable</Item>     <Item type="Participation" name="Participation Requirement" id="s"/> </xml> 

This is what I am trying till now

DocumentBuilderFactory dbc = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();         DocumentBuilder dbuilder;         try {             dbuilder = dbc.newDocumentBuilder();             Document doc = dbuilder.parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(plan.getProvisions())));             NodeList nl = doc.getElementsByTagName("Item");             for(int i = 0 ; i < nl.getLength(); i++){                 if(i == row){                                        Element e = (Element)nl.item(i);                     description = e.getAttribute("name");                 }             }         } catch (ParserConfigurationException e) {                       e.printStackTrace();         } catch (SAXException e) {                       e.printStackTrace();         } catch (IOException e) {                        e.printStackTrace();         } 

Answer 1

How about:

import java.io.File;  import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;  import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;  public class Demo {      public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {         DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();         DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();         Document document = db.parse(new File("input.xml"));         NodeList nodeList = document.getElementsByTagName("Item");         for(int x=0,size= nodeList.getLength(); x<size; x++) {             System.out.println(nodeList.item(x).getAttributes().getNamedItem("name").getNodeValue());         }     } }