Java tutorial
import java.io.FileInputStream; import javax.xml.namespace.QName; import javax.xml.stream.XMLInputFactory; import javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException; import javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamReader; import javax.xml.stream.events.XMLEvent; class StaxCursorTest { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { String filename = "yourXML.xml"; XMLInputFactory xmlif = null; xmlif = XMLInputFactory.newInstance(); xmlif.setProperty(XMLInputFactory.IS_REPLACING_ENTITY_REFERENCES, Boolean.TRUE); xmlif.setProperty(XMLInputFactory.IS_SUPPORTING_EXTERNAL_ENTITIES, Boolean.FALSE); xmlif.setProperty(XMLInputFactory.IS_COALESCING, Boolean.FALSE); try { XMLStreamReader xmlr = xmlif.createXMLStreamReader(filename, new FileInputStream(filename)); int eventType = xmlr.getEventType(); printStartDocument(xmlr); while (xmlr.hasNext()) { eventType = xmlr.next(); printStartElement(xmlr); printEndElement(xmlr); printText(xmlr); printPIData(xmlr); printComment(xmlr); } } catch (XMLStreamException ex) { System.out.println(ex.getMessage()); if (ex.getNestedException() != null) { ex.getNestedException().printStackTrace(); } } } public static final String getEventTypeString(int eventType) { switch (eventType) { case XMLEvent.START_ELEMENT: return "START_ELEMENT"; case XMLEvent.END_ELEMENT: return "END_ELEMENT"; case XMLEvent.PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION: return "PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION"; case XMLEvent.CHARACTERS: return "CHARACTERS"; case XMLEvent.COMMENT: return "COMMENT"; case XMLEvent.START_DOCUMENT: return "START_DOCUMENT"; case XMLEvent.END_DOCUMENT: return "END_DOCUMENT"; case XMLEvent.ENTITY_REFERENCE: return "ENTITY_REFERENCE"; case XMLEvent.ATTRIBUTE: return "ATTRIBUTE"; case XMLEvent.DTD: return "DTD"; case XMLEvent.CDATA: return "CDATA"; case XMLEvent.SPACE: return "SPACE"; } return "UNKNOWN_EVENT_TYPE , " + eventType; } private static void printEventType(int eventType) { System.out.println("EVENT TYPE(" + eventType + ") = " + getEventTypeString(eventType)); } private static void printStartDocument(XMLStreamReader xmlr) { if (xmlr.START_DOCUMENT == xmlr.getEventType()) { System.out.println("<?xml version=\"" + xmlr.getVersion() + "\"" + " encoding=\"" + xmlr.getCharacterEncodingScheme() + "\"" + "?>"); } } private static void printComment(XMLStreamReader xmlr) { if (xmlr.getEventType() == xmlr.COMMENT) { System.out.print("<!--" + xmlr.getText() + "-->"); } } private static void printText(XMLStreamReader xmlr) { if (xmlr.hasText()) { System.out.print(xmlr.getText()); } } private static void printPIData(XMLStreamReader xmlr) { if (xmlr.getEventType() == XMLEvent.PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION) { System.out.print("<?" + xmlr.getPITarget() + " " + xmlr.getPIData() + "?>"); } } private static void printStartElement(XMLStreamReader xmlr) { if (xmlr.isStartElement()) { System.out.print("<" + xmlr.getName().toString()); printAttributes(xmlr); System.out.print(">"); } } private static void printEndElement(XMLStreamReader xmlr) { if (xmlr.isEndElement()) { System.out.print("</" + xmlr.getName().toString() + ">"); } } private static void printAttributes(XMLStreamReader xmlr) { int count = xmlr.getAttributeCount(); if (count > 0) { for (int i = 0; i < count; i++) { System.out.print(" "); System.out.print(xmlr.getAttributeName(i).toString()); System.out.print("="); System.out.print("\""); System.out.print(xmlr.getAttributeValue(i)); System.out.print("\""); } } count = xmlr.getNamespaceCount(); if (count > 0) { for (int i = 0; i < count; i++) { System.out.print(" "); System.out.print("xmlns"); if (xmlr.getNamespacePrefix(i) != null) { System.out.print(":" + xmlr.getNamespacePrefix(i)); } System.out.print("="); System.out.print("\""); System.out.print(xmlr.getNamespaceURI(i)); System.out.print("\""); } } } }