This week's book giveaway is in the Agile and other Processes forum. We're giving away four copies of The Mikado Method and have Ola Ellnestam and Daniel Brolund on-line! See this thread for details.
As to your question, there's nothing Spring-specific about XML parsing, nor does Eclipse have anything to do with it. Are you familiar with JAXP, the API commonly used for parsing XML? If not, the http://faq.javaranch.com/java/XmlFaq might give you some ideas to start.