Reading an xml file from java

[Reapsy00]

Hi I'm trying to use DOM but don't really get it. So if I have some xml like this

<button> <---- this is a node ?
<name>ok</name> <--- this an element ? and a child node?
<default>true</default>
<clicked>false</clicked>
</button>

like for the element i can do myelement.getTagName() gives me name but how do i get whats in between the tags? i.e ok ( (node) myelement).getNodeValue() returns null

It all seems kind of confusing ...

 

[statik213]

I've only used JDOM to manip. XML and don't remember it too well. nut the stuff in between tags e.g. <tags>stuff</tags> is I think called the text in JDOM, see if there's a method to get the text of a node.

 

[Reapsy00]

Ahh think I figured out where I was going wrong, the stuff is a child of tags. Got confused trying to follow example code I found on the web that is wrong. Will stick to Sun's tutorial's from now on.

 

[kamper]

DOM = not nice for manual manipulation of xml!!

(That seems to be a small theme tonight ) If you get it all figured out, cool, but if you don't like working with DOM, check out JDom, as suggested by statik213 or other high-level tools for xml manipulation.