A Gentle Introduction to xml

http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-DOM-Level-1-19981001/java-language-binding.html lists the properties and methods that should be available to you.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<stock andrew="was here">
  <item price="50" legend="Pr-Burger" BarCode="E1" />
  <item price="15" legend="Crisp S+V" BarCode="E5" />
  <item price="15" legend="Crisp C+O" BarCode="E6" />
  <item price="50" legend="Flat Cola" BarCode="E7" />
</stock>

• Try out the example.
• Add a line to show the value of the hasChildNodes() method
• Show the value of the attribute "andrew"

The method getElementsByTagName(t) is a handy method of Document. It returns a NodeList - this in turn has two methods item(i) and getLength()

• Have the system print the node name for element 0 of the node list.
• We can loop over the node list - however we must explicitly recast each element to Element rather than Node.

        for (int i=0;i<nl.getLength();i++){
          Element e = (Element)nl.item(i);
          System.out.println(e.getAttribute("legend"));
        }