Java tutorial
import java.io.StringReader; 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 org.xml.sax.InputSource; public class Main { static String cfgXml = "<configuration> "// + "<config name='name1' type='main' format='xyz-D' size='1' scale='2' required='no'/> "// + "<config name='name2' type='sub' format='xyz-E' size='12' scale='5' required='no'/> "// + "<config name='name3' type='last' format='xyz-C' size='2' scale='1' required='no'/> "// + "<config name='name4' type='first' format='xyz-S' size='16' scale='3' required='no'/> "// + "<config name='name5' type='main' format='xyz-S' size='17' scale='2' required='no'/> "// + "<config name='name6' type='main' format='xyz-S' size='18' scale='2' required='no'/> "// + "<config name='name7' type='first' format='xyz-S' size='23' scale='4' required='no'/> "// + "<config name='name8' type='last' format='xyz-S' size='45' scale='2' required='no'/> "// + "<config name='name9' type='sub' format='xyz-s' size='39' scale='15' required='no'/> "// + "</configuration>"; public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { DocumentBuilderFactory dbFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); DocumentBuilder dBuilder = dbFactory.newDocumentBuilder(); Document doc = dBuilder.parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(cfgXml))); doc.getDocumentElement().normalize(); System.out.println("Root element :" + doc.getDocumentElement().getNodeName()); NodeList nList = doc.getElementsByTagName("config"); for (int temp = 0; temp < nList.getLength(); temp++) { Node nNode = nList.item(temp); System.out.println("\nCurrent Element :" + nNode.getNodeName()); if (nNode.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE) { Element eElement = (Element) nNode; Config c = new Config(); c.name = eElement.getAttribute("name"); c.type = eElement.getAttribute("type"); c.format = eElement.getAttribute("format"); c.size = Integer.valueOf(eElement.getAttribute("size")); c.scale = Integer.valueOf(eElement.getAttribute("scale")); String attribute = eElement.getAttribute("required"); c.required = Boolean.valueOf("Yes".equalsIgnoreCase(attribute) ? true : false); System.out.println("Imported config : " + c); } } } } class Config { @Override public String toString() { return "Config [name=" + name + ", type=" + type + ", format=" + format + ", size=" + size + ", scale=" + scale + ", required=" + required + "]"; } public String name; public String type; public String format; public int size; public int scale; public boolean required; }