Java HTML / XML How to - Use Xmlpull Parser to parse XML from URL

Question

We would like to know how to use Xmlpull Parser to parse XML from URL.

Answer

import java.io.InputStream;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;
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import javax.xml.stream.XMLInputFactory;
import javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamConstants;
import javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamReader;

public class Main {

  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    URLConnection connection = new URL(
        "http://api.androidhive.info/pizza/?format=xml").openConnection();
    InputStream inputStream = connection.getInputStream();
    XMLStreamReader streamReader = XMLInputFactory.newInstance()
        .createXMLStreamReader(inputStream, "UTF-8");
    while (streamReader.hasNext())
      if (streamReader.next() == XMLStreamConstants.START_ELEMENT)
        System.out.println("START_ELEMENT " + streamReader.getName());
  }
}