Failing to get element values using Element.getAttribute()

Question

I would like to read an xml file. I\' ve found an example which is good until the xml element doesn\'t have any attributes. Of course i\'ve tried to look after how could I r

Answer 1

Use dom4j library.

InputStream is = new FileInputStream(filePath);

SAXReader reader = new SAXReader();
org.dom4j.Document doc = reader.read(is);
is.close();
Element content = doc.getRootElement();  //this will return the root element in your xml file
List methodEls = content.elements("element"); // this will retun List of all Elements with name "element"
Attribute attrib = methodEls.get(0).attribute("attributeName"); // this is the "attributeName" attribute of first element with name "element"