XML parse file from HTTP

Question

I have an XML file located at a location such as

http://example.com/test.xml

I'm trying to parse the XML file to use it in my program with xPath like this but it is not working.

Document doc = builder.parse(new File(url));

How can I get the XML file?

Answer 1

Get rid of the new File():

Document doc = builder.parse(url);

Answer 2

It's much easier with a XMLPullParser ... you don't have to deal with this event stuff and can quickly pick up some keywords ... I'm using it too ... only a couple of code lines :)

http://developer.android.com/reference/org/xmlpull/v1/XmlPullParser.html

Regarding HTTP and files have a look here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3011770/download-a-file-with-defaulthttpclient-and-preemptive-authentication

Answer 3

A little more detail, based on laz answer:

String urlString = "http://example.com/test.xml";
URL url = new URL(urlString);
Document doc = builder.parse(url);

Answer 4

File fileXml = new File(url);

DocumentBuilder parser = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder();
Document document = parser.parse(fileXml);

it should go