Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import java.io.File; import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.HashMap; import java.util.List; import java.util.Map; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory; import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.w3c.dom.Element; import org.w3c.dom.Node; import org.w3c.dom.NodeList; import android.util.Log; public class Main { public static List<Map<String, String>> ReadPlaylistItemsFromFile(String path, String filename) { List<Map<String, String>> results = new ArrayList<Map<String, String>>(); try { File fXmlFile = new File(path, filename); DocumentBuilderFactory dbFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); DocumentBuilder dBuilder = dbFactory.newDocumentBuilder(); Document doc = dBuilder.parse(fXmlFile); doc.getDocumentElement().normalize(); NodeList songList = doc.getElementsByTagName("song"); Log.d("ReadItemsFromFile", "List Length: " + songList.getLength()); for (int i = 0; i < songList.getLength(); i++) { Node nNode = songList.item(i); if (nNode.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE) { Element eElement = (Element) nNode; HashMap<String, String> mapElement = new HashMap<String, String>(); mapElement.put("name", eElement.getElementsByTagName("name").item(0).getTextContent()); mapElement.put("artist", eElement.getElementsByTagName("artist").item(0).getTextContent()); mapElement.put("startTime", eElement.getElementsByTagName("startTime").item(0).getTextContent()); mapElement.put("url", eElement.getElementsByTagName("url").item(0).getTextContent()); results.add(mapElement); } } } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); return null; } return results; } }