How can I parse the following httpresponse and also what is the best method to parse it?

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<catalog><channel><id>4</id>
<name>News</name>
<shortDescription>News happens!</shortDescription>
<subscribe>true</subscribe></channel>
<channel><id>10</id>
<name>Jokes</name>
<shortDescription>funny jokes!</shortDescription>  
</channel>
<channel><id>5</id><name>Markets</name<keyword>cc-markets</keyword>  
<shortDescription>Track the market's movers & shakers at-a-glance.</shortDescription> 
</channel>
</catalog>

I want to get the data between the tag "name", I have many tags with the name "name" but all the tags are not being parsed, the xml is being parsed only till the tag with data "Markets", this has been frustrating me for quite some time now. Any help will be much appreciated.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 09 '12 at 16:29

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There are lot of alternatives

xmlpullparser

SAXParser

DomParser

etc.,

Here is interesting ibm article on xml parsers in android.

answered Feb 09 '12 at 16:29

kosa

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I know but the SAX parser doesn't parse the data after the special character "&", I had tough time with DOM parser too. What will be the best approach? – Venkata Dinesh Feb 09 '12 at 16:32
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Here is SO discussion on how to handle "&" character while SAX parsing http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7798411/how-to-read-escaped-characters-using-sax-parser-in-characters-method – kosa Feb 09 '12 at 16:36
SO should I go ahead with SAXparsing? – Venkata Dinesh Feb 09 '12 at 16:40
I don't see any issues with it. Based on your requirement you may decide one of those. – kosa Feb 09 '12 at 16:46
Go for SAX Parser there is a way to parse special characters in the SAX Parser – Rocker Feb 09 '12 at 17:02
@thinksteep still the whole data is not being parsed. – Venkata Dinesh Feb 09 '12 at 18:43
What is the error you are getting? Update latest code and error. – kosa Feb 09 '12 at 19:06

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 09 '12 at 16:27

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Here you have two possible xml parsers:

http://developer.android.com/reference/org/xmlpull/v1/XmlPullParser.html

http://www.bearcave.com/software/java/xml/xmlpull.html

answered Feb 09 '12 at 16:27

oriolpons

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I'm new to parsing can you help me out with the code for my xml? – Venkata Dinesh Feb 09 '12 at 16:30

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 11 '12 at 17:50

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I figured it out, apparently SAXParser doesn't parse special characters such as "'" and "&" instead it uses "'" and "&" in place of them. So all I did was replacing these characters with their xml counterparts that is it.

answered Feb 11 '12 at 17:50

Venkata Dinesh

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How can I parse the following httpresponse and also what is the best method to parse it?

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