Multiple elements with the same name with SimpleXML and Java
- by LouieGeetoo
I'm trying to use SimpleXML to parse an XML document (an ItemLookupResponse for a book from the Amazon Product Advertising API) which contains the following element:
<ItemAttributes>
<Author>Shane Conder</Author>
<Author>Lauren Darcey</Author>
<Manufacturer>Pearson Educacion</Manufacturer>
<ProductGroup>Book</ProductGroup>
<Title>Android Wireless Application Development: Barnes & Noble Special Edition</Title>
</ItemAttributes>
My problem is that I don't know how to deal with the multiple possible Author elements.
Here's what I have right now for the corresponding POJO (Plain Old Java Object), keeping in mind that it's not handling the case of multiple Authors:
@Element
public class ItemAttributes {
@Element
public String Author;
@Element
public String Manufacturer;
@Element
public String Title;
}
(I don't care about the ProductGroup, so it's not in the class -- I'm just setting SimpleXML's strict mode to off to allow for that.)
I couldn't find an example in the documentation that corresponded with such a case. Using an ElementList with (inline=true) seemed along the right lines, but I didn't see how to do it for String (as opposed to a separate Author class, which I have no need for and don't see how it would even work).
Here's a similar question and answer, but for PHP: php - simpleXML how to access a specific element with the same name as others? I don't know what the Java equivalent would be to the accepted answer.
Thanks in advance.
