Hy, I'm trying to read from a xml file and save it's data in an ArrayList then a HashMap
my xml file looks like this:
<components>
<component id="door1">
<bounds>
<left>10</left>
<top>5</top>
<width>25</width>
<height>10</height>
</bounds>
<properties>
<propertie name="allignment" value="horizontal" />
<propertie name="orientation" value="top" />
<propertie name="isOpened" value="false" />
<propertie name="isLocked" value="true" />
</properties>
</component>
<component id="window1">
<bounds>
<left>5</left>
<top>15</top>
<width>5</width>
<height>10</height>
</bounds>
<properties>
<propertie name="allignment" value="vertical" />
<propertie name="orientation" value="left" />
<propertie name="isOpened" value="false" />
</properties>
</component>
</components>i read the bounds for each element and i store it in a HashMap, identified by an order number, it looks like this:
{0=[5, 15, 5, 10], 1=[5, 15, 5, 10]}my problem is with the "properties" tag, because with the following code it attributes for each id everything it finds in the <propertie> tag and i need, of course, only the specific attributes of an "id"
public HashMap<Integer, ArrayList<String>> readComponentsProperties(
File inFile) throws Exception {
HashMap<Integer, ArrayList<String>> map = new HashMap<Integer, ArrayList<String>>();
final ArrayList<String> list = new ArrayList<String>();
int j = 0, i = 0, k = 0;
String id = null, name = null, value = null;
DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
Document document = builder.parse(inFile);
document.getDocumentElement().normalize();
NodeList idNode = document.getElementsByTagName("component");
for (k = 0; k < idNode.getLength(); k++) {
NodeList component = document.getElementsByTagName("propertie");
System.out.println(idNode.getLength());
System.out.println(component.getLength());
for (i = 0; i < idNode.getLength(); i++) {
for (j = 0; j < component.getLength(); j++) {
Element el = (Element) idNode.item(i);
id = el.getAttribute("id");
System.out.println("the id: " + id);
Element elem = (Element) component.item(j);
name = elem.getAttribute("name");
System.out.println("name: " + name);
value = elem.getAttribute("value");
System.out.println("value: " + value);
}
list.add(id + " " + name + " " + value);
System.out.println(list);
}
}
map.put(i, list);
list.clear();
// System.out.println("map: " + map);
return null;
}it's the first time i work with xml files and i don't know yet what is with the parent and child nodes, i don't know how to use them
