How to save data when parsing XML?

Question

I have a xml-file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<list>
<file name="a" size="559393"/>
<file name="b" size="1766945"/>
...
</list>

With SAX-parser I need to get the attribute values (in my case the name and size values of all tags file ) and write in a collection for the further work my program.

How should I realize this? For each tag file to create an object with the fields name and size , and add it all to the ArrayListObject ?

Answer 1

yes , you should have already object with name and size attributes , and while you in start element method , do something like this .

 @Override public void startElement(String uri, String localName, String qName, Attributes attributes) throws SAXException { if (qName.equalsIgnoreCase("file")) { String name = attributes.getValue("name"); String size = attributes.getValue("size"); file file = new file (name,size); list.add(file); } }