一、基本介绍

对XML解析有SAX和DOM等多种方式，Android中极力推荐xmlpull方式解析xml。xmlpull不仅可用在Android上同样也适用于javase，但在javase环境中需自己获取xmlpull所依赖的类库，kxml2-2.3.0.jar，xmlpull_1_1_3_4c.jar。

jar包下载网址
http://www.xmlpull.org/
http://kxml.sourceforge.net/

二、例子

读取到xml的声明返回数字0 START_DOCUMENT;
读取到xml的结束返回数字1 END_DOCUMENT ;
读取到xml的开始标签返回数字2 START_TAG
读取到xml的结束标签返回数字3 END_TAG
读取到xml的文本返回数字4 TEXT

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<people>
 <person id="001">
  <name>XY1</name>
  <age>22</age>
 </person>
 <person id="002">
  <name>XY2</name>
  <age>22</age>
 </person>
</people>

package cn.xy.service;

import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParser;
import org.xmlpull.v1.XmlSerializer;

import android.util.Xml;
import cn.xy.model.Person;

public class PersonService
{
 
 public List getPeople(InputStream xml) throws Exception
 {
  List lst = null;
  Person person = null;

// 利用ANDROID提供的API快速获得pull解析器
  XmlPullParser pullParser = Xml.newPullParser();

// 设置需要解析的XML数据
  pullParser.setInput(xml, "UTF-8");

// 取得事件
  int event = pullParser.getEventType();

// 若为解析到末尾
  while (event != XmlPullParser.END_DOCUMENT) // 文档结束
  {
   String nodeName = pullParser.getName();
   switch (event)
   {
    case XmlPullParser.START_DOCUMENT: // 文档开始
     lst = new ArrayList();
     break;
    case XmlPullParser.START_TAG: // 标签开始
     if ("person".equals(nodeName))
     {
      String id = pullParser.getAttributeValue(0);
      person = new Person();
      person.setId(id);
     }
     if ("name".equals(nodeName))
     {
      String name = pullParser.nextText();
      person.setName(name);
     }
     if ("age".equals(nodeName))
     {
      int age = Integer.valueOf(pullParser.nextText());
      person.setAge(age);
     }
     break;
    case XmlPullParser.END_TAG: // 标签结束
     if ("person".equals(nodeName))
     {
      lst.add(person);
      person = null;
     }
     break;
   }
   event = pullParser.next(); // 下一个标签
  }
  return lst;
 }

public void saveDataToXML(OutputStream os, List lst) throws Exception
 {
  XmlSerializer xs = Xml.newSerializer();
  xs.setOutput(os, "UTF-8");
  xs.startDocument("UTF-8", true);
  xs.startTag(null, "people");
  for (Person p : lst)
  {
   xs.startTag(null, "person");
   xs.attribute(null, "person", p.getId());

xs.startTag(null, "name");
   xs.text(p.getName());
   xs.endTag(null, "name");

xs.startTag(null, "age");
   xs.text(p.getAge().toString());
   xs.endTag(null, "age");

xs.endTag(null, "person");
  }
  xs.endTag(null, "people");
  xs.endDocument();
  os.flush();
  os.close();
 }
}

public class TestClass extends AndroidTestCase
{
 public void testPeople() throws Exception
 {
  PersonService ps = new PersonService();
  InputStream xml = this.getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("person.xml");
  List lst = ps.getPeople(xml);
  Assert.assertEquals("XY1", lst.get(0).getName());
 }

public void testSave() throws Exception
 {
  PersonService ps = new PersonService();
  List lst = new ArrayList();
  lst.add(new Person("0001", "XY0001", 20));
  lst.add(new Person("0002", "XY0002", 20));
  File xmlFile = new File(this.getContext().getFilesDir(), "xy.xml"); // data/data/package name/files
  OutputStream os = new FileOutputStream(xmlFile);
  ps.saveDataToXML(os, lst);
 }
}

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