JDom: read/parse XML from String

JDOM as you (Java developers) all know is excellent package for dealing with XML. Its interface is very simple to use, and yet it’s very fast. What else do you want?

Now, I needed to read/parse XML from String, not from file and I wandered around a bit and finally made it work. Let’s just say that we have XML structure like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<transDocument>
<commResponse>
<meta>
<code>0</code>
<description>Success</description>
</meta>
</commResponse>
</transDocument>

and we have it all in String variable called xmlResponse and we want values code and description tags. Those values will be found in String variables code and description respectively. Here’s the way how to do it:

import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;</pre>
import org.jdom.Document;
import org.jdom.Element;
import org.jdom.JDOMException;
import org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder;

SAXBuilder builder = new SAXBuilder();
Reader in = new StringReader(xmlResponse);
Document doc = null;
Element root = null;
Element meta = null;
Element _code = null;
Element _description = null;
String code = null;
String description = "";
try
{
 doc = builder.build(in);
 root = doc.getRootElement();
 meta = root.getChild("commResponse").getChild("meta");
 _code = meta.getChild("code");
 _description = meta.getChild("description");
 code = _code.getText();
 description = _description.getText();

} catch (JDOMException e)
 {
 // do what you want
 } catch (IOException e)
 {
 // do what yo want
 } catch (Exception e)
 {
 // do what you want
 }
System.out.println("code: " + code + "\ndescription: " + description);

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PS more info about JDOM can be found at: http://www.jdom.org/