public static ArrayList<Book> parseBooksXML(String xml) { ArrayList<Book> bookList = new ArrayList<Book>(); Book book = null; try { DocumentBuilderFactory dbFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); DocumentBuilder dBuilder = dbFactory.newDocumentBuilder(); InputSource is = new InputSource(); is.setCharacterStream(new StringReader(xml)); Document doc = dBuilder.parse(is); doc.getDocumentElement().normalize(); System.out.println("Root element :" + doc.getDocumentElement().getNodeName()); NodeList nList = doc.getElementsByTagName("book"); for (int i = 0; i < nList.getLength(); i++) { Node nNode = nList.item(i); book = new Book(); if (nNode.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE) { Element eElement = (Element) nNode; book.setAuthor_fname( eElement.getElementsByTagName("author_fname").item(0).getTextContent()); book.setAuthor_lname( eElement.getElementsByTagName("author_lname").item(0).getTextContent()); book.setBook_title(eElement.getElementsByTagName("book_title").item(0).getTextContent()); book.setYear( Integer.parseInt(eElement.getElementsByTagName("year").item(0).getTextContent())); book.setPrice( Double.parseDouble(eElement.getElementsByTagName("price").item(0).getTextContent())); book.setIsbn(eElement.getElementsByTagName("isbn").item(0).getTextContent()); System.out.println( "Author First Name : " + eElement.getElementsByTagName("author_fname").item(0).getTextContent()); System.out.println( "Author Last Name : " + eElement.getElementsByTagName("author_lname").item(0).getTextContent()); System.out.println( "Book Title : " + eElement.getElementsByTagName("book_title").item(0).getTextContent()); System.out.println( "Price : " + eElement.getElementsByTagName("price").item(0).getTextContent()); System.out.println( "Year : " + eElement.getElementsByTagName("year").item(0).getTextContent()); System.out.println( "ISBN : " + eElement.getElementsByTagName("isbn").item(0).getTextContent()); System.out.println("----------------------------------"); } bookList.add(book); } } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } return bookList; }