Parsing XML for a specific text node (someone who knows DOM, plz help)

[sulabh4u]

I have this XML here:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<scopes>
<item>
<scope>scope1</scope>
<description>description of the scope</description>
<scopeID>12vkjlasc</scopeID>
</item>
<item>
<scope>scope2</scope>
<description>description of the scope2</description>
<scopeID>8s9sm2emk</scopeID>
</item>
<item>
<scope>scope3</scope>
<description>description of the scope3</description>
<scopeID>7tqsxjnds</scopeID>
</item>
</scopes>


now i want to have the item with a specific scopeID as my output, what i mean is, if lets say i know a scopeID, assume it to be '12vkjlasc', then i get the output from my above XML as :

<item>
<scope>scope1</scope>
<description>description of the scope</description>
<scopeID>12vkjlasc</scopeID>
</item>

or even this would work:

<scope>scope1</scope>
<description>description of the scope</description>
<scopeID>12vkjlasc</scopeID>


Any ideas? Thx in advance!

[r035198x]

I have this XML here:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<scopes>
<item>
<scope>scope1</scope>
<description>description of the scope</description>
<scopeID>12vkjlasc</scopeID>
</item>
<item>
<scope>scope2</scope>
<description>description of the scope2</description>
<scopeID>8s9sm2emk</scopeID>
</item>
<item>
<scope>scope3</scope>
<description>description of the scope3</description>
<scopeID>7tqsxjnds</scopeID>
</item>
</scopes>


now i want to have the item with a specific scopeID as my output, what i mean is, if lets say i know a scopeID, assume it to be '12vkjlasc', then i get the output from my above XML as :

<item>
<scope>scope1</scope>
<description>description of the scope</description>
<scopeID>12vkjlasc</scopeID>
</item>

or even this would work:

<scope>scope1</scope>
<description>description of the scope</description>
<scopeID>12vkjlasc</scopeID>


Any ideas? Thx in advance!

Are you able to read the XML file using JAXP?

[sulabh4u]

Are you able to read the XML file using JAXP?

yup, i'm able to read the XML ... for eg. i can get the root name using this code:

File file = new File(filePath);
DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
Document doc = db.parse(file);
doc.getDocumentElement().normalize();
System.out.println("Root element " + doc.getDocumentElement().getNodeName());