what's the best way to extract multiple attributes from anode

[carlos flamenco]

hi,
I'm wondering if i should be using getAttributes from xml paser to extract the attributes in the item node.
I wish to insert the data into a database. At the moment i'm just using selectNodes, but i'm having to initialise a nodelist for each of the items i wish to extract, there is 6 of them in total.
Anybody have any ideas?
<item date="2001-02-27" itemid="30737" parts="1" revision="3" href="30737.xml"
<title>Paper</title>
</item>

Thanks

[Ajith Kallambella]

DOM is good, JDOM is better. I can't think of any other better way.

[Pho Tek]

In SAX, one would do this to extract attributes:-

public void startElement(String namespaceURI,
                         String localName,
                         String rawName,
                         Attributes atts)
 throws SAXException
{
  // only process elements with nodeName "item"
  if (localName.equals("item")){
    for (int i=0; i<atts.getLength(); i++){
      System.out.println(" attrname = " + atts.getLocalName(i));
      System.out.println(" attrval = " + atts.getValue(i));
    }
  }
}

Pho
[This message has been edited by Pho Tek (edited March 15, 2001).]
[This message has been edited by Pho Tek (edited March 15, 2001).]

[ARS Kumar]

Using DOM parser xerces.jar from http://xml.apache.org we can get into the attributes by
NamedNodeMap attrs = node.getAttributes();

if (attrs != null) {
attributes += attrs.getLength();

for(int i=0;i < attrs.getLength();i++){
System.out.println("Attributes :: " + attrs.item(i).toString());
Attr atr = (Attr)attrs.item(i);
System.out.println(" Name of Attribute :: " + atr.getName());
System.out.println(" Value of Attribute :: " + atr.getValue());
}
}
Attr is the interface that deals with attributes. Refer to xerces documentation for more informaion.

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ARS Kumar
Sun Certified Programmer for Java 2 Platform.

[Kamakshi Mahadevan]

Just noted that:
In the above code,
System.out.println("Attributes :: " + attrs.item(i).toString());

is equivalent to:
Attr atr = (Attr)attrs.item(i);
System.out.println(" Name of Attribute :: " + atr.getName());
System.out.println(" Value of Attribute :: " + atr.getValue());
so either will suffice.
[This message has been edited by Kamakshi Mahadevan (edited March 20, 2001).]
[This message has been edited by Kamakshi Mahadevan (edited March 20, 2001).]