Android™

Methods for Getting Attributes

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Demonstrates some methods for getting attribute name/values.

The input XML, available at http://www.chilkatsoft.com/data/car.xml, is this:

<root>
    <car color="black" make="mercedes" model="C350" hp="302" engine="v6" type="sedan">Mercedes Benz C350</car>
</root>

Android™

// Important: Don't forget to include the call to System.loadLibrary
// as shown at the bottom of this code sample.
package com.test;

import android.app.Activity;
import com.chilkatsoft.*;

import android.widget.TextView;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class SimpleActivity extends Activity {

  private static final String TAG = "Chilkat";

  // Called when the activity is first created.
  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    boolean success = false;

    CkXml xml = new CkXml();
    CkXml carNode;
    int numAttr;
    int horsepower;
    int i;

    // The sample input XML is available at http://www.chilkatsoft.com/data/car.xml
    success = xml.LoadXmlFile("car.xml");
    if (success != true) {
        Log.i(TAG, xml.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    // Navigate to the "car" node, which is the 1st child:
    carNode = xml.FirstChild();

    // Get the value of the "model" attribute:
    Log.i(TAG, "model = " + carNode.getAttrValue("model"));

    // Get the value of the "hp" attribute as an integer:
    horsepower = carNode.GetAttrValueInt("hp");
    Log.i(TAG, "horsepower = " + String.valueOf(horsepower));

    // Iterate over the attributes and show the name/value of each:
    numAttr = carNode.get_NumAttributes();

    i = 0;
    while (i < numAttr) {
        Log.i(TAG, carNode.getAttributeName(i) + ": " + carNode.getAttributeValue(i));
        i = i + 1;
        }


  }

  static {
      System.loadLibrary("chilkat");

      // Note: If the incorrect library name is passed to System.loadLibrary,
      // then you will see the following error message at application startup:
      //"The application <your-application-name> has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."
  }
}