parsing XML-like string

[Sachin Deshpande]

Hi, I have a string which looks like
<city><name>Bombay</name><xcoord>1234</xcoord><ycoord>5678</ycoord><size>1357</size><population>97531</population> </city>
how do I
1)get a list of tags in the string?
2)get the values within the tags?
using the org.apache.xerces.parsers.SaxParser
Thnx in advance
PS I am a novice(as you can see)

[Ajith Kallambella]

Have you seen the SAXParser documentation? It provides an interface called ContentHandler which you can implement. The idea is, during the parsing the parser calls( "call-back" ) your code and so you can take any decisions you want to take, including extracting the content embedded between the tags.
So you will first create a ContentHandler implementation, code all the interface methods that you're interested in ( definitely the StartElement method ). Then you can call SetContentHandler on the parser passing your implementation as the argument. Then just start the parsing.
Good luck,
[PS: If you're just playing around, take a look at DOM parsing also. It is a lot neater than SAX parsing since it is not event-based ]
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Ajith Kallambella M.
Sun Certified Programmer for the Java�2 Platform.
IBM Certified Developer - XML and Related Technologies, V1.

[Ajith Kallambella]

I forgot to ask, what is "XML-like" ?? Just remember it has to be a well-formed XML document in order for the parser to even consider it for parsing.
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Ajith Kallambella M.
Sun Certified Programmer for the Java�2 Platform.
IBM Certified Developer - XML and Related Technologies, V1.