Woodstox : Read Attribute Of XML Element

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Overview

This article demonstrates how to read the attribute in an XML element using Woodstox.

Create employee.xml as shown below. Note the attribute ‘id’ for the element ’employee’ (see line 1 below).

Create TestReadAttribute class as shown below.

Note that start element is obtained by using the StAX API (see lines 20-28 below).

The following API calls demonstrate reading of attribute:

  • For the ’employee’ start element, get the attribute count (see line 22 below)
  • Get the attribute name (see line 24 below)
  • Get the attribute value (see line 25 below)

The output of the program demonstrating reading of attributes is shown below:

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