XML parsing using java

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I personally used XOM and liked it.

Use the DOM, like shown here: http://www.java-samples.com/showtutorial.php?tutorialid=152 for example.

Since its a soap response, why don't you write a nice simple web service client to retrieve the response and automatically turn it into objects for you.

There's an example of that here.

You can use DSM stream parsing library to convert key-value pair to List then get what you want.

This is the first approach. To do this you should define your yaml mapping file as follows.

result: type: array # result is array path: /.+item # read item tag. the path is a regex. fields: key: value: 

Java Code to parse XML:

DSM dsm=new DSMBuilder(new File("path/to/mapping.yaml")).setType(DSMBuilder.TYPE.XML).create(); List<Map<String, Object>> itemList = (List<Map<String, Object>>)dsm.toObject(xmlFileContent); 

Here is itemList list that converted to json.

[ { "key" : "Application", "value" : "MobileDevice" }, { "key" : "Version", "value" : "1.0" }, { "key" : "Username", "value" : "ramau" }, { "key" : "token", "value" : null }, { "key" : "sessionID", "value" : "SESSIONID" }, { "key" : "OSInformation", "value" : "windowsXP" } ] 

The second approach is converting XML to a java map that it's key of map is value of key tag and value of the map is the value of the value tag in XML.

Here is Mapping File:

result: type: object # result is map path: /.+multiRef # path is regex fields: key: path: item/key # read value of /.+multiRef/item/key tag value: path: item/value # read value of /.+multiRef/item/value tag application: parentPath: item # assign default value when /.+multiRef/item tag is closed default: $self.data.value # get value of value field. filter: $self.data.key=='Application' # assign if key filed is 'Application' version: parentPath: item default: $self.data.value filter: $self.data.key=='Version' username: parentPath: item default: $self.data.value filter: $self.data.key=='Username' token: parentPath: item default: $self.data.value filter: $self.data.key=='token' sessionID: parentPath: item default: $self.data.value filter: $self.data.key=='sessionID' OSInformation: parentPath: item default: $self.data.value filter: $self.data.key=='OSInformation' 

Java Code to parse XML:

DSM dsm=new DSMBuilder(new File("path/to/mapping.yaml")).setType(DSMBuilder.TYPE.XML).create(); Map<String, Object> result = (Map<String, Object>)dsm.toObject(xmlFileContent); String application=result.get("application").toString() 

Here is the JSON representation of Result:

{ "key" : "OSInformation", "value" : "windowsXP", "application" : "MobileDevice", "version" : "1.0", "username" : "ramau", "token" : null, "sessionID" : "SESSIONID", "OSInformation" : "windowsXP" } 

In first it's come a bit complicated but if you look at docs it is very easy.