Store XML values to a String in JAVA

Question

I want to store the values contained in an XML file to a java String Object. Here is my XML code :

<properties>
  <comment>test.xml</comment>
  <entry key="1">test1</entry>
  <entry key="2">test1,test2,test3</entry>
  <entry key="3">test1,test2,test3</entry>
<properties>

I want 'values' to be stored in a string. Eg:

String msg;
if(msg.equals("1")){
  String str1 = //get values of key "1" (ie) test1
}
else if(msg.equals("2")){
  String str2 = //get values of key "2" (ie) test1,test2,test3
}

Is there any way to do it using HashMap or anything?? Thanks.

An XML-parser comes to mind. See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/373833/best-xml-parser-for-java — heikkim, Oct 01 '12 at 08:01
Use Jaxb http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/javase/index-140168.html — Amit Deshpande, Oct 01 '12 at 08:03

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 01 '12 at 08:52

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You can use XPATH for it, for instance, it will look like this:

//properties/entry[@key ='1']/text()

answered Oct 01 '12 at 08:52

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 01 '12 at 08:55

This looks like a Java XML properties file. If so, you can load it straight into a Properties object by calling properties.loadFromXML.

Properties prop = new Properties();
FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream("props.xml");
prop.loadFromXML(fis);
System.out.println("Value of key 1 is: " + prop.getProperty("1")); //prints test1

Note that for this to work, The XML document must have the following DOCTYPE declaration:

<!DOCTYPE properties SYSTEM "http://java.sun.com/dtd/properties.dtd">

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:27

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The following link will give you the smallest of xml parsing code to perform your task, XML parsing in Java via Groovy

edited May 23 '17 at 12:27

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answered Oct 07 '12 at 20:17

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Store XML values to a String in JAVA

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