Parsing XML from website to an Android device

Question

I am starting an Android application that will parse XML from the web. I\'ve created a few Android apps but they\'ve never involved parsing XML and I was wondering if anyone had

Answer 1

I always use the w3c dom classes. I have a static helper method that I use to parse the xml data as a string and returns to me a Document object. Where you get the xml data can vary (web, file, etc) but eventually you load it as a string.

something like this...

    Document document = null;
    DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
    DocumentBuilder builder;

    try
    {
        builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
        InputSource is = new InputSource(new StringReader(data));
        document = builder.parse(is);
    }
    catch (SAXException e) { }
    catch (IOException e) { }
    catch (ParserConfigurationException e) { }