How to Use Xerces in Eclipse

Instructions

1

Open the Eclipse software and open the Java project you want to use to parse the XML file. Double-click the .java source code file in the left panel to open the code in the editor.

2

Instantiate the class and open the XML file. The class loads the XML into a handler so you can edit or display the information. The following code loads the file customer.xml into the parser, but replace this file with your own:

DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
xml= db.parse("customer.xml");

3

Display the node list. For instance, the following code displays the employee's first and last name to the user:

Element elements = xml.getDocumentElement();
NodeList nodes = elements.getElementsByTagName("customer");
System.out.println((Element)nodes.item('FirstName') + " " + (Element)nodes.item('LastName') );