title: Android : How to parse the XML Attributes
body: <p>XMLParser.Java</p>
  
  <pre><code>    import java.io.IOException;
  import java.io.StringReader;
  import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
  import java.util.jar.Attributes;
  
  import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
  import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
  import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
  
  import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
  import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
  import org.apache.http.client.ClientProtocolException;
  import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
  import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
  import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;
  import org.w3c.dom.Document;
  import org.w3c.dom.Element;
  import org.w3c.dom.Node;
  import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
  import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
  import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
  
  import android.util.Log;
  
  public class XMLParser {
  
      // constructor
      public XMLParser() {
  
      }
  
      /**
       * Getting XML from URL making HTTP request
       * @param url string
       * */
      public String getXmlFromUrl(String url) {
          String xml = null;
  
          try {
              // defaultHttpClient
              DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
              HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost(url);
  
              HttpResponse httpResponse = httpClient.execute(httpPost);
              HttpEntity httpEntity = httpResponse.getEntity();
              xml = EntityUtils.toString(httpEntity);
  
          } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
              e.printStackTrace();
          } catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
              e.printStackTrace();
          } catch (IOException e) {
              e.printStackTrace();
          }
          // return XML
          return xml;
      }
  
      /**
       * Getting XML DOM element
       * @param XML string
       * */
      public Document getDomElement(String xml){
          Document doc = null;
          DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
          try {
  
              DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
  
              InputSource is = new InputSource();
                  is.setCharacterStream(new StringReader(xml));
                  doc = db.parse(is); 
  
              } catch (ParserConfigurationException e) {
                  Log.e("Error: ", e.getMessage());
                  return null;
              } catch (SAXException e) {
                  Log.e("Error: ", e.getMessage());
                  return null;
              } catch (IOException e) {
                  Log.e("Error: ", e.getMessage());
                  return null;
              }
  
              return doc;
      }
  
      /** Getting node value
        * @param elem element
        */
       public final String getElementValue( Node elem ) {
           Node child;
           if( elem != null){
               if (elem.hasChildNodes()){
                   for( child = elem.getFirstChild(); child != null; child = child.getNextSibling() ){
                       if( child.getNodeType() == Node.TEXT_NODE  ){
                           return child.getNodeValue();
                       }
                   }
               }
           }
           return "";
       }
  
       /**
        * Getting node value
        * @param Element node
        * @param key string
        * */
       public String getValue(Element item, String str) {     
              NodeList n = item.getElementsByTagName(str);        
              return this.getElementValue(n.item(0));
          }   
  
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Test XML File</p>
  
  <pre><code>http://sathishm.com/test.xml
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>XMLActivity.java</p>
  
  <pre><code>    // All static variables
      static final String URL = "http://sathishm.com/test.xml";
      // XML node keys
      static final String KEY_ITEM = "row"; // parent node
      static final String KEY_ID = "rank";
      static final String KEY_NAME = "metro_area";
      static final String KEY_COST = "durum";
      static final String KEY_DESC = "latitude";
  
  ArrayList&lt;HashMap&lt;String, String&gt;&gt; menuItems = new ArrayList&lt;HashMap&lt;String, String&gt;&gt;();
  
          XMLParser parser = new XMLParser();
          String xml = parser.getXmlFromUrl(URL); // getting XML
          Document doc = parser.getDomElement(xml); // getting DOM element
  
          NodeList nl = doc.getElementsByTagName(KEY_ITEM);
          // looping through all item nodes &lt;item&gt;
          for (int i = 0; i &lt; nl.getLength(); i++) {
              // creating new HashMap
              HashMap&lt;String, String&gt; map = new HashMap&lt;String, String&gt;();
              Element e = (Element) nl.item(i);
              // adding each child node to HashMap key =&gt; value
              map.put(KEY_ID, parser.getValue(e, KEY_ID));
              map.put(KEY_NAME, parser.getValue(e, KEY_NAME));
              map.put(KEY_COST, "Rs." + parser.getValue(e, KEY_COST));
              map.put(KEY_DESC, parser.getValue(e, KEY_DESC));
  
              // adding HashList to ArrayList
              menuItems.add(map);
          }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Guys, please look into the XML file. I can able to get the all XML values from the URL, can you please tell me how can i get the XML attributes. Example how can i get the "location" attributes ?</p>