java - Parsing XML attributes from Complex Empty Elements -

i have xml file in following pattern contains few complex empty elements(elements no content, attributes).

<items>     <item id="0" name="a" />     <item id="1" name="b" /> </items> 

i'm @ lose parse attributes them. have done far :

documentbuilderfactory factory = documentbuilderfactory.newinstance(); documentbuilder builder = factory.newdocumentbuilder(); document document = builder.parse(inputstream); element itemselement = document.getdocumentelement(); if (itemselement.gettagname().equals(tag_items)) {     nodelist nodelist = itemselement.getchildnodes();     (int = 0; < nodelist.getlength(); i++) {         // process each item node         node node = nodelist.item(i);         if (node.getnodetype() == node.text_node) { // right way?             text text = (text) node;             // stuff attributes         }     } } 

i cannot cast these text nodes element nodes , attributes, cannot attributes node using getattributes - npe @ namednodemap attributes.getlength(), cannot cast text , attributes. how can parse attributes?

you not interested in text context of nodes inside of items in attributes of nodes item. proceed follow:

//process each item node node node = nodelist.item(i); if (node.getnodename().equals("item")) {     namednodemap attributes = node.getattributes();     system.out.printf("id=%s, name=%s%n",              attributes.getnameditem("id").gettextcontent(),             attributes.getnameditem("name").gettextcontent()); } 

this print:

id=0, name=a id=1, name=b