How to read properties from xml file with java?

Question

I have the following xml file:

Answer 1

Thanks for all the answers/suggestions! I tried some of the xml libraries given above and decided to go with the Simple XML library. I found the "Dictionary" utility class especially useful, to avoid looping through all the elements. Elegant and simple :)

Below is how I used it. I hope it can help someone else...

Regards,

Alex

A working example (on Windows Vista):

package demo;

import java.io.File;

import org.simpleframework.xml.Serializer;
import org.simpleframework.xml.core.Persister;

public class Demo {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        File file = new File("c:\\temp\\resources.xml");
        Serializer serializer = new Persister();
        Resources resources = serializer.read(Resources.class, file);

        Resource resource = resources.getResourceByName("res001");
        System.out.println(resource.getProperty("propA"));
        System.out.println(resource.getProperty("propB"));
    }
}

Console window:

A-001
B-001

Resources.java

package demo;

import org.simpleframework.xml.ElementList;
import org.simpleframework.xml.Root;
import org.simpleframework.xml.util.Dictionary;

@Root(name="resources")
public class Resources {
    @ElementList(entry = "resource", inline = true) 
    private Dictionary resources = new Dictionary();

    public Resources(@ElementList(entry = "resource", inline = true) Dictionary resources) {
        this.resources = resources;
}

    public Resource getResourceByName(String name){
        return resources.get(name);
    }
}

Resource.java

package demo;

import org.simpleframework.xml.Attribute;
import org.simpleframework.xml.ElementList;
import org.simpleframework.xml.util.Dictionary;
import org.simpleframework.xml.util.Entry;

public class Resource  implements Entry{
    @Attribute(name = "name") private final String name;
    @ElementList(inline=true, name="property") private Dictionary properties;

    public Resource(
                    @Attribute(name = "name") String name, 
                    @ElementList(inline=true, name="property") Dictionary properties) {
            this.name = name;
            this.properties = properties;
    }

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    public String getProperty(String name) {
        return properties.get(name).getValue();
    }
}

Property.java

package demo;

import org.simpleframework.xml.Attribute;
import org.simpleframework.xml.Root;
import org.simpleframework.xml.util.Entry;

@Root
public class Property implements Entry{
    @Attribute(name="name") private String name;
    @Attribute(name="value") private String value;

    public Property(@Attribute(name="name") String name, @Attribute(name="value") String value) {
        this.name = name;
        this.value = value;
    }

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    public String getValue() {
        return value;
    }
}

resources.xml