Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory; import org.apache.log4j.Logger; import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.w3c.dom.Node; import org.w3c.dom.NodeList; public class Main { private static Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(new Exception().getStackTrace()[0].getClassName()); public static String getAttribute(String xmlStr, String tagName, String attrName) { DocumentBuilderFactory domFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); domFactory.setNamespaceAware(false); // never forget this! Document doc = null; DocumentBuilder builder = null; String value = null; try { builder = domFactory.newDocumentBuilder(); doc = builder.parse(new ByteArrayInputStream(xmlStr.getBytes())); // Get the root element Node rootNode = doc.getFirstChild(); NodeList nodeList = doc.getElementsByTagName(tagName); if ((nodeList.getLength() == 0) || (nodeList.item(0).getAttributes().getNamedItem(attrName) == null)) { logger.error("Either node " + tagName + " or attribute " + attrName + " not found."); } else { value = nodeList.item(0).getAttributes().getNamedItem(attrName).getNodeValue(); logger.debug("value of " + tagName + " attribute: " + attrName + " = " + value); } } catch (Exception ex) { System.out.println(ex.getMessage()); } return value; } }