Simplest way to query XML in Java

Question

I have small Strings with XML, like:

String myxml = \"goodhi\";

<

Answer 1

You can use Jerry to query XML similar to jQuery.

jerry(myxml).$("status")

Answer 2

Here is a code snippet of querying your XML with VTD-XML

import com.ximpleware.*;
public class simpleQuery {

    public static void main(String[] s) throws Exception{
        String myXML="<resp><status>good</status><msg>hi</msg></resp>";
        VTDGen vg = new VTDGen();
        vg.setDoc(myXML.getBytes());
        vg.parse(false);
        VTDNav vn = vg.getNav();
        AutoPilot ap = new AutoPilot(vn);
        ap.selectXPath("/resp/status");
        int i = ap.evalXPath();
        if (i!=-1)
            System.out.println(" result ==>"+vn.toString(i));
    }
}

Answer 3

convert this string into a DOM object and visit the nodes:

Document dom= DocumentBuilderFactory().newDocumentBuilder().parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(myxml)));
Element root= dom.getDocumentElement();
for(Node n=root.getFirstChild();n!=null;n=n.getNextSibling())
 {
 System.err.prinlnt("Current node is:"+n);
 }