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;
}
