I am trying to get an attribute of an xml node example:
<Car name="Test">
</Car>
I want to grab the name attribute of the car node.
DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
Document doc = db.parse(configFile);
doc.getDocumentElement().normalize();
NodeList layerConfigList = doc.getElementsByTagName("CAR");
Node node = layerConfigList.item(0);
// get the name attribute out of the node.
this is where i get stuck because the only method that looks like i can use is getAttributes() with returns a NamedNodeMap and im not sure how to extract it from that.
Answer
Your node is an Element so you just have to
Element e = (Element)node;
String name = e.getAttribute("name");