Reading an XML file using Java

Dear all,
Currently, I'm planning to write a java program that will read from an xml file. This is my XML file:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<HUMIDITYMEASURE>
<HUMIDITY>32.0</HUMIDITY>
</HUMIDITYMEASURE>
Now, here is my Java code:
import java.io.*;
class ReadAFile{
public static void main(String[]args){
try{
File myFile=new File("XMLFile.xml");
FileReader fileReader= new FileReader(myFile);
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(fileReader);
String line = "null";
while ((line = reader.readLine()) !=null){
System.out.println(line);
reader.close();
catch(Exception ex){
ex.printStackTrace();
So far the program displays the content of the xml file (with the tags). However, my aim is to make the program display the values, not the tags. For example, in this case, i'd like my program to display the value '32.0' rather than:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<HUMIDITYMEASURE>
<HUMIDITY>32.0</HUMIDITY>
</HUMIDITYMEASURE>
Can anyone provide me with any advice as to how i can do this please? I tried using the tokenizer and split, but to be honest, they dont really work. If anybody has any suggestions, please reply if possible.
Regards,

I have found the solution to my task.
Many thanks to those who have viewed/replied to my message.
For those of you who may be wondering how the problem was solved, it is useful to refer to some documents relating to Java and XML (as combination).
Imported packages such as:
import java.io.File;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.*;
and variations of import javax.xml were used.
The use of Nodes and NodeLists I used to.
Thanks again.
p.s. More details on XML and Java are found on the Sun Website.
Regards,
Raheal

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