XmlPull和Sax类似,是基于流(stream)操作文件,然后根据节点事件回调开发者编写的处理程序。因为是基于流的处理,因此Xmlpull和Sax都比较节约内存资源,不会象Dom那样要把所有节点以对橡树的形式展现在内存中。
但Xmlpull比Sax更简明,而且不需要扫描完整个流。现在XmlPull是一开源项目,并成为了Google android类库的一部分,想了解更多请查看http://www.xmlpull.org。XmlPull的jar以及源文件见附件。
XmlPull使用起来很简单,下面献上一自己写的实例,xml数据由google weather api提供:http://easymorse.googlecode.com/svn/tags/android.xmlpull.google.weather-1.0/assets/weather.xml
public class xmlPuller {
public static void main(String[] args) {
XmlPullParser xpp = null;
String url = "http://easymorse.googlecode.com/svn/tags/android.xmlpull.google.weather-1.0/assets/weather.xml";
String filename = "weather.xml";
FileInputStream fis = null;
InputStream is = null;
try {
if(getRemoteFile(url,filename)){
fis = new FileInputStream(new File("weather.xml"));
is = new BufferedInputStream(fis);
XmlPullParserFactory factory = XmlPullParserFactory.newInstance();
factory.setNamespaceAware(true);
xpp = factory.newPullParser();
xpp.setInput(is,"utf-8");
int type = xpp.getEventType();
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
while(type!=XmlPullParser.END_DOCUMENT){
switch(type){
case XmlPullParser.START_DOCUMENT:
sb.append("Start document");
break;
case XmlPullParser.START_TAG:
sb.append("Start tag:" + xpp.getName() + "\n");
for(int i=0;i<xpp.getAttributeCount();i++){
sb.append("\t Attr:" + xpp.getAttributeName(i) + "--");
sb.append("Value:" + xpp.getAttributeValue(i));
}
break;
case XmlPullParser.END_TAG:
sb.append("End tag:" + xpp.getName());
break;
case XmlPullParser.TEXT:
if(xpp.getText().endsWith("")){
sb.append("\t Start text: null");
} else {
sb.append("\t Start text:" + xpp.getText());
}
break;
default:break;
}
System.out.println(sb.toString());
sb.delete(0, sb.length());
xpp.next();
type = xpp.getEventType();
}
System.out.println("End document");
}
}catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}catch (XmlPullParserException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
} finally {
try {
if(is!=null){
is.close();
}
if(fis!=null){
fis.close();
}
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
运行时经常会遇到以下的异常:
caused by: org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserException: resource not found: /META-INF/services/org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserFactory make sure that parser implementing XmlPull API is available; nested exception is:
org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserException: resource not found: /META-INF/services/org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserFactory make sure that parser implementing XmlPull API is available
at org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserFactory.newInstance(XmlPullParserFactory.java:278)
at org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserFactory.newInstance(XmlPullParserFactory.java:259)
at xmlPuller.main(xmlPuller.java:28)
XmlPullParserException:resource not found!
没有找到这样的资源:META-INF/services/org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserFactory
so,我们就为它添加这样的资源:
将http://kxml.sourceforge.net/下载的kxml2.jar加到你的项目中即可。
kxml2.jar就包含了META-INF/services/org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserFactory文件,它的内容其实就是一句话:
org.kxml2.io.KXmlParser,org.kxml2.io.KXmlSerializer