Java

Parsing XML Children Having Identical Tags

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Demonstrates how to deal with XML where child elements may have identical tags. Chilkat2 Java

import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.Xml;

public class ChilkatExample {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // This example will get the phoneNumber's and groupMembershihpInfo's from the following XML:

        // <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
        // <someEntries>
        //     <entry>
        //         <id>123</id>
        //         <updated>2017-07-19T05:19:57.761Z</updated>
        //         <app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2017-07-19T05:19:57.761Z</app:edited>
        //         <category scheme="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#kind" term="http://schemas.google.com/contact/2008#contact"/>
        //         <title>George Costanza</title>
        //          <gd:name>
        //             <gd:fullName>George Costanza</gd:fullName>
        //             <gd:givenName>George</gd:givenName>
        //             <gd:familyName>Costanza</gd:familyName>
        //         </gd:name>
        //         <gd:phoneNumber rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#home">(555) 123-4567</gd:phoneNumber>
        //         <gd:phoneNumber rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#mobile">(555) 444-8877</gd:phoneNumber>
        //         <gd:phoneNumber rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#work">(555) 678-1111</gd:phoneNumber>
        //         <gContact:groupMembershipInfo deleted="false" href="http://www.google.com/123"/>
        //         <gContact:groupMembershipInfo deleted="false" href="http://www.google.com/456"/>
        //     </entry>
        // </someEntries>
        //

        Xml xml = new Xml();

        xml.loadXmlFile("qa_data/xml/georgeCostanza.xml");

        int numPhoneNumbers = xml.numChildrenHavingTag("entry|*:phoneNumber");
        int i = 0;
        while (i < numPhoneNumbers) {
            Xml xPhoneNumber = xml.getNthChildWithTag("entry|*:phoneNumber", i);
            System.out.println(xPhoneNumber.getContent());
            xPhoneNumber.close();
            i = i + 1;
        }

        System.out.println("----");

        int numGroupMemberships = xml.numChildrenHavingTag("entry|*:groupMembershipInfo");
        i = 0;
        while (i < numGroupMemberships) {
            Xml xMembership = xml.getNthChildWithTag("entry|*:groupMembershipInfo", i);
            System.out.println(xMembership.getAttrValue("href"));
            xMembership.close();
            i = i + 1;
        }
    }
}