simple way of parsing an xml document

From:
"bl8n8r" <bl8n8r@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
20 Jan 2007 15:29:35 -0800
Message-ID:
<1169335775.671404.306730@38g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
   /* read in XML file by passing path to file on disk. print out node
names and values */
  /* sample of xml source file
   * <?xml version="1.0"?>
   * <map>
   * <title>Google section 1003;83;982</title>
   * <zoomlevel>1</zoomlevel>
   * <rclass>1,2</rclass>
   * <mapdata>
   * textdata.textdata.textdata.textdata.textdata.textdata.textdata
   * </mapdata>
   * </map>
   */

   public ReadXML (String xmlpath)
   {
      File file = new File (xmlpath);

      try
      {
         DocumentBuilder builder =
DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder();
         Document doc = builder.parse(file);
         Element el = doc.getDocumentElement();
         NodeList nl = el.getChildNodes();
         Node n;

         for (int i = 0; i < nl.getLength(); i++)
         {
            n = nl.item(i);

            if (n.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE)
               System.out.println (i + ")" + n.getNodeName() + " val:"
+ n.getTextContent() + " type:" + n.getNodeType());
         }

      }

      catch (Exception e)
      {
         System.out.println ("error parsing file " + xmlpath);
      }

   }

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