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How to read XML data

 
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I have XML data in one string, and I want to extract data from its tag, how to do that in J2SE.

eg. My Data:

String str = "<tag1>data1</tag1><tag2>data2</tag2>"

how to read data1 and data2 from string.. ??

Note: I am using Google Health API to extract the profile and it is returning profile information in the form of XML.
Please suggest some way to read it....
Thanks and Regards
Amit
 
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First of all, note that what you posted is not valid XML - it does not have one single root element. I hope that's not actually what Google Health uses.

Both the DOM and SAX APIs can read from an InputStream (which is easily constructed from a String). Check the java.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder and SAXParser javadocs for the relevant methods. Basic examples of how to use both can be found here, particularly e510 and e517.
 
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Ulf, you mean not well formed?

You could also try StAX. StAX is a core JSE API in 1.6 and comes with a bundled implementation.

this and this should help if you are interested.
 
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