XMl Data into String in blackberry

Question

Read the contents of an local XML file in an application and get the whole contents of xml file into a string for blackberry application?

Answer 1

To create a string from a local file see this blackberry forum entry: Open txt file from mediacard

Assuming you want to use the data within the XML, I would recommend using a XML parser rather than string manipulation. The following links should get you going with XML parsers and explain some of the trade-offs:

• Blackberry How To - Use the XML Parser
• Parsing XML in J2ME
• Add XML parsing to your J2ME applications

If, however, you have any say about the format used JSON might be a good alternative. JSON is easy for machines to parse (thus using fewer resources) and it's human readable.