Android: Parsing XML DOM parser. Converting childnodes to string
Again a question. This time I'm parsing XML messages I receive from a server. Someone thought to be smart and decided to place HTML pages in a XML message. Now I'm kind of facing problems because I want to extract that HTML page as a string from this XML message.
Ok this is the XML message I'm parsing:
<AmigoRequest>
<From></From>
<To></To>
<MessageType>showMessage</MessageType>
<Param0>general message</Param0>
<Param1><html><head>test</head><body>Testhtml</body></html></Param1>
</AmigoRequest>
You see that in Param1 a HTML page is specified. I've tried to extract the message the following way:
public String getParam1(Document d) {
if (d.getDocumentElement().getTagName().equals("AmigoRequest")) {
NodeList results = d.getElementsByTagName("Param1");
// Messagetype depends on what message we are reading.
if (results.getLength() > 0 && results != null) {
return results.item(0).getFirstChild().getNodeValue();
}
}
return "";
}
Where d is the XML message in document form. It always returns me a null value, because getNodeValue() returns null. When i try results.item(0).getFirstChild().hasChildNodes() it will return true because he sees there is a tag in the message.
How can i extract the html message <html><head>test</head><body>Testhtml</body></html> from Param0 in a string?
I'm using Android sdk 1.5 (well almost java) and a DOM Parser.
Thanks for your time and replies.
Antek
Answer
You could take the content of param1, like this:
public String getParam1(Document d) {
if (d.getDocumentElement().getTagName().equals("AmigoRequest")) {
NodeList results = d.getElementsByTagName("Param1");
// Messagetype depends on what message we are reading.
if (results.getLength() > 0 && results != null) {
// String extractHTMLTags(String s) is a function that you have
// to implement in a way that will extract all the HTML tags inside a string.
return extractHTMLTags(results.item(0).getTextContent());
}
}
return "";
}
All you have to do is to implement a function:
String extractHTMLTags(String s)
that will remove all HTML tag occurrences from a string. For that you can take a look at this post: Remove HTML tags from a String