Parsing an XML from Online in Android

Create a fresh project and name it ParseXMLDemo
Then in the ParseXMLDemo.java file copy this code

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import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
import android.app.ListActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.AdapterView;
import android.widget.ListAdapter;
import android.widget.ListView;
import android.widget.SimpleAdapter;
import android.widget.Toast;
import android.widget.AdapterView.OnItemClickListener;

public class ParseXMLDemo extends ListActivity {
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);
       
        ArrayList<String> mylist = new ArrayList<String>();
        String xml = ParseXMLMethods.getXML();
        Document doc = ParseXMLMethods.XMLfromString(xml);
        int numResults = ParseXMLMethods.numResults(doc);

        if((numResults <= 0)){
          Toast.makeText(ParseXMLDemo.this, "There is no data in the xml file", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
              finish();
        }

        NodeList children = doc.getElementsByTagName("os");
        for (int i = 0; i < children.getLength(); i++)
          {
            HashMap<string string=""> map =new HashMap<string string="">();
            Element e = (Element)children.item(i);
            map.put("id", ParseXMLMethods.getValue(e, "id"));
            map.put("name", ParseXMLMethods.getValue(e, "name"));
            map.put("site", ParseXMLMethods.getValue(e, "site"));
            mylist.add(map);
          }
        ListAdapter adapter = new SimpleAdapter(this,mylist ,R .layout.list_layout,
                          new String[] { "name", "site" },
                          new int[] { R.id.title, R.id.subtitle});

       setListAdapter(adapter);

       
        final ListView lv = getListView();
        lv.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {
            public void onItemClick(AdapterView parent, View view, int position, long id) {
                @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
                HashMap<String, String> o = (HashMap<String, String>) lv.getItemAtPosition(position);
                Toast.makeText(ParseXMLDemo.this,o.get("name"), Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
            }
        });
    } }
            

Now create another java file inside the src folder and name it ParseXMLMethods.java and copy this contents into it.

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.StringReader;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;

public class ParseXMLMethods {

    public final static Document XMLfromString(String xml){

        Document doc = null;
        DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
        try {
            DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
            InputSource is = new InputSource();
            is.setCharacterStream(new StringReader(xml));
            doc = db.parse(is);
        }  
            catch (ParserConfigurationException e) {
            System.out.println("XML parse error: " + e.getMessage());
            return null;
        }
            catch (SAXException e) {
            System.out.println("Wrong XML file structure: " +e.getMessage());
            return null;
        }
            catch (IOException e) {
            System.out.println("I/O exeption: " +e.getMessage());
            return null;
        }
        return doc;
    }
     public final static String getElementValue( Node elem ) {
         Node kid;
         if( elem != null){
             if (elem.hasChildNodes()){
                 for( kid = elem.getFirstChild(); kid != null;kid = kid.getNextSibling() ){
                     if( kid.getNodeType() == Node.TEXT_NODE  ){
                         return kid.getNodeValue();
                     }
                 }
             }
         }
         return "";
     }
     public static String getXML(){
            String line = null;
            try {
           DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
           HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost("http://new ABC.com/xml/test.xml");
           HttpResponse httpResponse = httpClient.execute(httpPost);
           HttpEntity httpEntity = httpResponse.getEntity();
           line = EntityUtils.toString(httpEntity);
            } catch (Exception e) {
             line = "Internet Connection Error >> " + e.getMessage();
            }
            return line;
    }

    public static int numResults(Document doc)
      {
        Node results = doc.getDocumentElement();
        int res = -1;
        try
        {
          res = Integer.valueOf(results.getAttributes()
                         .getNamedItem("count").getNodeValue());
        }catch(Exception e ){
            res = -1;
        }
        return res;
    }

    public static String getValue(Element item, String str)
    {
        NodeList n = item.getElementsByTagName(str);
        return ParseXMLMethods.getElementValue(n.item(0));
    }
}

in main.xml:

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"> 

    <ListView
        android:id="@id/android:list"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:background="#FF0000"
        android:drawSelectorOnTop="false"/> 
</LinearLayout> 

list_layout.xml:

< ?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> 
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:padding="7dp"> 
<TextView
    android:id="@+id/title"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium"
    android:padding="2dp"
    android:textSize="20dp"
    android:textStyle="bold"/> 
    <TextView
    android:id="@+id/subtitle"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:padding="2dp"
    android:textSize="14dp"
    android:textColor="#000000"/> 
</LinearLayout> 

Strings.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> 
<resources> 
    <string name="hello"> Hello World, ParseXMLDemo!</string> 
    <string name="app_name"> ParseXMLDemo New ABC.com</string> 
</resources>