Parsing XML string or content using java code

The following program is an example for parsing the XML string using code.

import java.io.StringReader;

import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;

import org.w3c.dom.CharacterData;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;

public class XMLParse {
  public static void main(String arg[]) throws Exception{
    String xmlRecords = "A"
        + "";

    DocumentBuilder db = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder();
    InputSource is = new InputSource();
    is.setCharacterStream(new StringReader(xmlRecords));

    Document doc = db.parse(is);
    NodeList nodes = doc.getElementsByTagName("employee");

    for (int i = 0; i < nodes.getLength(); i++) {
      Element element = (Element) nodes.item(i);

      NodeList name = element.getElementsByTagName("name");
      Element line = (Element) name.item(0);
      System.out.println("Name: " + getCharacterDataFromElement(line));

      NodeList title = element.getElementsByTagName("title");
      line = (Element) title.item(0);
      System.out.println("Title: " + getCharacterDataFromElement(line));
    }

  }

  public static String getCharacterDataFromElement(Element e) {
    Node child = e.getFirstChild();
    if (child instanceof CharacterData) {
      CharacterData cd = (CharacterData) child;
      return cd.getData();
    }
    return "";
  }
}


Reading XML from another Site using Java code

import="com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.URI"
import="java.io.InputStream"
import="java.net.URL"
import="javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory"
import="javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder"
import="org.w3c.dom.Document"
import="org.w3c.dom.NodeList"
import="org.w3c.dom.NamedNodeMap"
import="org.w3c.dom.Node"

URL url= new URL("www.google.com");
InputStream in=url.openStream();
DocumentBuilderFactory factory=DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder builder=factory.newDocumentBuilder();
Document document=builder.parse(in);

If you want to get retrive entire node list that can be done by

NodeList nodeList=document.getElementsByTagName("NameofTheNode");

By these all the node will come in that Node List.
If you want to retrive the attributes with in that Node,that can be done by

Node node= nodeList.item(indx);
NamedNodeMap nnm=node.getAttributes();
String href=nnm.getNamedItem("AttributeNamewithinthatNode").getNodeValue();