Xml parsing in android

Question

Hi Friends,

In android app, i want to send a php requeset, and am expecting a response in the form of xml, from the server.

Can anybody provide pointers in this case.

Answer 1

You can use XmlPullParser bundled with android to parse the response. To get the parser instance use this snippet:

XmlPullParser pullParser = XmlPullParserFactory.newInstance().newPullParser();
pullParser.setInput(...); //Set input source with response you parsing.

Answer 2

There are 3 methods for parsing XMl in android. See working with xml in android.

Answer 3

Xstream is your friend http://xstream.codehaus.org/