Hi mel,

I also got the same error but now I had solved the error.
You have to make an entry in ur androidmainfest.xml file

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />

In my case when i was trying the problem, I had placed the xml file in my local hardrive, had attached it to the IIS server and had given the path of localhost (we have to give the ip address of our pc. 127.0.0.1 or localhost will not work). I had done all these think because we access the net using proxy server and I have to set the path of the proxy server which I dont know where to set. If you are not using the proxy server no need to do that.

hey manish!!! thx a lot!

it works now... but the string that says "anddev.org rulez =) " does not appear

hahaha... :S dont know why

tdi wrote:

rigeltrue wrote:

bstubbs wrote:Artur79, did you ever figure out how to solve the missing string?

I'm getting the same results:


[quote]
ExtractedString =
ExtractedInt = 1337

Anyone else getting this, found a solution? Thanks

Hi
I meet the same proplem.

Chnage the xml file from

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1. <mytag>
2. anddev.org rulez =)
3. </mytag>

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That works.

Damn, had the same problem. After changing to inline as you said, it works. It is weird imo, valid xml is valid xml.[/quote]

The same here. Need to change the xml file and upload to another place to test.

plusminus, could you please change the source xml file? Thanks for your tutorial.

thx EverYoung124

Thanks plusminus, I found this tutorial really helpful!

How would you extract the XML from inside the tag itself, ie this bit of code:

from the WoW armory?

How would i extract the value 6561?
Most of the examples show a setup

Edit:
NM, i just noticed that the tut actually includes an example, and i was just blind apparently.

how can i extract mytag's value which is anddev.org rulez =)
and
myattr's value which is sample_attribute???

i tried using both characters() and startElement(). But somehow the parser does not seem to be going inside characters().
Please help.

Thanks,
Vijay.C

Very understandable tutorial for android beginners. I come from a C#.NET background and the only android tutorials I've done so far are the hello world, notepad, and hello world views from Google. I jumped right into this one and was able to pull XML data from my favorite site in less than 2 hours by modifying the xml tag names.

I encountered a couple of challenges:

First I kept getting an "unknown error" exception whenever I get the url's stream. I solved this by adding the INTERNET permission in the manifest file.

Then after changing the XML source to my favorite site's rss feed, I was receiving an array of strings. When I appended all these strings to the TextView i noticed I could not scroll. I tried changing the single line attribute to false but that didn't seem to work. What I did instead was use a ListActivity and added each string to the item list. This allowed me to actually see all the data and scroll through it, which made me happy to see a successful application!

Thanks plusminus!

Hello,
I wanted to thank you, too.
But I do really have a problem:
When I want to parse this XML File:

<marketexport>
<createtime_timestamp>1236801648</createtime_timestamp>
<createtime_date>11.03.09 - 21:00</createtime_date>
<ressources>
<ressource>
<name>Energie</name>
<price>14</price>
<number>11967033</number>
</ressource>
</ressources>
<race>
<race_name>Nova Federation</race_name>
<military_units>
<unit>
<name>NoF Marine</name>
<price>1200</price>
<number>845</number>
</unit>
</military_units>
<spy_units>
<unit>
<name>Thief</name>
<price>0</price>
<number>0</number>
</unit>
<unit>
<unit>
<name>Agent</name>
<price>0</price>
<number>0</number>
</unit>
</spy_units>
</race>
</marketexport>

With this code:

ExampleHandler:

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public void startElement(String namespaceURI, String localName,
          String qName, Attributes atts) throws SAXException {
       if (localName.equals("marktexport")) {
            this.in_marktexport = true;
        }
       if (localName.equals("ressources")) {
            this.in_ressources = true;
        }
       if (localName.equals("ressource")) {
            this.in_ressource = true;
        }
       if (localName.equals("race")) {
            this.in_race = true;
        }
       if (localName.equals("race_name")) {
          this.in_race_name = true;
        }
       if (localName.equals("military_units")) {
           this.in_military_units = true;
        }
       if (localName.equals("unit")) {
           this.in_unit = true;
        }
        if (localName.equals("name")) {   
           this.in_name = true;
        }
        if (localName.equals("price")) {
           this.in_price = true;
        }
        if (localName.equals("number")) {
           this.in_number = true;
        }
       
    }
   
    public void endElement(String namespaceURI, String localName, String qName)
              throws SAXException {
       if (localName.equals("marktexport")) {
            this.in_marktexport = false;
       }
       if (localName.equals("ressources")) {
            this.in_ressources = false;
       }
       if (localName.equals("ressource")) {
            this.in_ressource = false;
       }
       if (localName.equals("name")) {
           this.in_name = false;
       }
       if (localName.equals("price")) {
           this.in_price = false;
       }
       if (localName.equals("number")) {
           this.in_number = false;
       }
       if (localName.equals("race")) {
          this.in_race = false;
       }
       if (localName.equals("race_name")) {
          this.in_race_name = false;
       }
       if (localName.equals("military_units")) {
              this.in_military_units = false;
       }
       if (localName.equals("unit")) {
              this.in_unit = false;
       }
    }
   
    public void characters(char ch[], int start, int length) {
             if(this.in_race_name){
                myParsedExampleDataSet.setrace(new String(ch, start, length));
             }
               if(this.in_name){
                  myParsedExampleDataSet.setname(new String(ch, start, length));
                }
               if(this.in_price){
                   myParsedExampleDataSet.setprice(new String(ch, start, length));
                }
                if(this.in_number){
                   myParsedExampleDataSet.setnumber(new String(ch, start, length));
                }
    }


ParsedExampleDataSet:

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//Setter
    public void setprice(String price){
         this.price = price;
    }
    public void setname(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }
    public void setnumber(String number) {
        this.number = number;
    }
    public void setrace(String race) {
        this.race = race;
    }
   
    //Getter
    public String getnumber() {
        return number;
    }
    public String getprice() {
        return price;
    }
    public String getname() {
        return name;
    }
    public String getrace() {
        return race;
    }
   
    //.toString()
    public String toString() {
        result = getrace()+"nName: "+getname()+"nPreis: "+getprice()+"nVerfügbare Anzahl: "+getnumber();
         return result;
    }


I Only get:
Nova Federation
Name: Agent
Preis: 0
Anzahl: 0

but i should get Thiefes, Guardians, Marines and so on, and the ressources too

Perhaps someone can help me with my problem

How would you go about handling more than 1 copy of the same tag?

This tutorial was very helpful! Thanks!

Is there also a tutorial or an easy way to this the another way around? So editing a *.txt on a webserver with your Android application?

Would be very helpful to me, because I want to create an online log-file of the actions which are being performed in the android-application.

Thanks for the tutorial, but if in the xml tag there a value on more rows, this script take only last..

How do to take all rows?

es.

Hi,

I am having problems with this when it comes to a tag with the character "&" in it.

If I have something like the following

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<searchResults>
  <result number="0">
    <name>Person D & J</name>
    <phone>555-555-555</phone>
  </result>
</searchResults>


Then it causes problems when parsing the <name> tag. I altered the script to return the value of the <name> tag into an array, and that will parse it into an array that looks like: ['Person D ', '&', ' J']

Unfortuantly, this cannot work the way I want it to with that bug in it. Im not sure what causes the bug, but I can't think of anything to help me out with this. Any code you need me to post, just ask, but it is basically what is in the tutorial added to parse that xml file.

Note: It works perfectly if there are no entries containing &.

Thanks, Josh

I am having an issue where it reads the characters fine in the emulator but on the real device, the characters are getting cut off... anyone else have this issue?

First of all, thanks a lot to the creator of the tutorial.

I know this tutorial is old but to people reading it now (like I just did since I'm currently learning android), a little clarification:

The characters method is not called only after the end tag of an element is reached. In fact, it may be called a number of times for each element content.

So in the tutorial where it says:

When the Parser reaches such a Tag, the following method gets called, providing the characters between the opening and the closing tag:
Java:


In reality if you want to be sure to get the entire content of an element you should not rely on characters to contain that content each time it's called. Instead, you should create a StringBuffer and append to it each time the characters method is called. Then you can reset the StringBuffer each time the startElement method is called.

This might be why some people were having problems with empty content when the content spanned multiple lines.