getting child elements(with values) from xml

[Rakshit Achary]

Dear Members,

I am completely new to groovy scripting and struggling lot to get my work done. Kindly help me to resolve the below scenario.
I have soap request as below.

<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:webs="http://webs">
   <soapenv:Header/>
   <soapenv:Body>
      <webs:SaveFilePropertiesRequest>
         <webs:File>
         	<webs:FileName>fileNameValue#1</webs:FileName>
         	<webs:FilePath>filePathValue#1</webs:FilePath>
         	<webs:FileType>fileTypeValue#1</webs:FileType>
         	<webs:FileSize>fileSizeValue#1</webs:FileSize>
         </webs:File>
         <webs:File>
         	<webs:FileName>fileNameValue#2</webs:FileName>
         	<webs:FilePath>filePathValue#2</webs:FilePath>
         	<webs:FileType>fileTypeValue#2</webs:FileType>
         	<webs:FileSize/>
         </webs:File>
      </webs:SaveFilePropertiesRequest>
   </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

I need to traverse through this soap request and extract elements which will be assigned some values. (I am sorry, I am not well known of xml namings for its nodes/elements.). For example, my groovy code should yieldfollowing result

FileName#1 
FilePath#1 
FileType#1 
FileSize#1 
FileName#2 
FilePath#2 
FileType#2 
FileSize#2 

I have in my soap request more than 10 iterations for File. So, I have used #number. Please do help me at the earliest so that I can be saved from ire I am facing .

Thanks in advance

Rakshit

[Kemal Sokolovic]

The topic is little bit too much for the beginning level, so I moved it to more appropriate forum.

Welcome to the Ranch and good luck with your question!

[Mark Spritzler]

Have you looked at the XmlSlurper class in Groovy?

Mark

[Rakshit Achary]

Thanks Kemal ,

Mark, I have surfed on the internet many examples (both in groovy and java) for the same but not able to reach to a conclusion owing to my less knowledge about both.

Can you please help me by providing same in both language codes (java and groovy).

Regards
Rakshit

[chris webster]

Rakshit Achary wrote:I have surfed on the internet many examples (both in groovy and java) for the same but not able to reach to a conclusion owing to my less knowledge about both.

It's simple: use Groovy's XmlSlurper to read and parse XML as it's Groovy (not Java) and it's much easier to use.

Here is a tutorial on Groovy and XML by Scott Davis (a keen Groovy advocate). It's from 2009 so the latest version of the XmlSlurper may be slightly different.

Here is a short example of using XmlSlurper.

Here is a very brief comparison of using XmlSlurper and Java to process the same snippet of XML.

Just try it out on your XML - you'll probably find you can solve your problem even quicker than asking the question here on JavaRanch!