xml pull parser assets xml

mixm,

I was toying with various ways to load a local file from both 'assets' and 'res', but to answer your question as asked (as no one else seems to have):

First, either make sure your XML is valid before testing or turn off validation, this is how you can do that and instantiate a pull parser at the same time:

    try {        XmlPullParserFactory factory = XmlPullParserFactory.newInstance();        factory.setValidating(false);        XmlPullParser myxml = factory.newPullParser();

Then open the xml file and set as input to your pull parser:

        InputStream raw = getApplicationContext().getAssets().open("simple.xml");        myxml.setInput(raw, null);

Now setup your pull loop (or other, depends on whether you want to do deferred pulling or not, that's your design decisions:

        int eventType = myxml.getEventType();        while(eventType != XmlPullParser.END_DOCUMENT) {            if(eventType == XmlPullParser.START_DOCUMENT) {                Log.d(MY_DEBUG_TAG, "In start document");            }            else if(eventType == XmlPullParser.START_TAG) {                Log.d(MY_DEBUG_TAG, "In start tag = "+myxml.getName());            }            else if(eventType == XmlPullParser.END_TAG) {                Log.d(MY_DEBUG_TAG, "In end tag = "+myxml.getName());            }            else if(eventType == XmlPullParser.TEXT) {                Log.d(MY_DEBUG_TAG, "Have text = "+myxml.getText());            }            eventType = myxml.next();        }    } catch (XmlPullParserException e) {

Note the myxml.getEventType() , you need to do this to get the parse going and handle what type events you are pulling. Note: catch blocks omitted for readability.

Tested the above on 2.1, hope it helps-Frank