Reading from XML and printing on console

Question

I have an XML file like this
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE ROOT SYSTEM "matches.dtd">
<ROOT>
<row>
<field name="MatchNo">1</field>
<field name="Date">2006-06-09</field>
<field name="Time">18:00:00</field>
<field name="Team1">Germany</field>
<Team1_sc/>
<field name="Team2">Costa Rica</field>
<Team2_sc/>
<field name="Venue">Munich</field>
</row>
<row>
<field name="MatchNo">2</field>
<field name="Date">2006-06-09</field>
<field name="Time">21:00:00</field>
<field name="Team1">Poland</field>
<Team1_sc/>
<field name="Team2">Ecuador</field>
<Team2_sc/>
<field name="Venue">Gelsenkirchen</field>
</row>
</ROOT>
I have to print the Data on console
I wrote a code for this
import java.io.File;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.*;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import org.xml.sax.SAXParseException;
import java.util.*;
import java.text.*;
* Created on Mar 5, 2006
* TODO To change the template for this generated file go to
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* @author Sandeep_Kongathi
* TODO To change the template for this generated type comment go to
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public class XMLToConsole {
     String MatchNo = "";
     String Date = "";
     String Time = "";
     String Team1 = "";
     String Team2 = "";
     String Venue = "";
     int totalActionObject=0;
     try {
     DocumentBuilderFactory docBuilderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
     DocumentBuilder docBuilder = docBuilderFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
//     System.out.println ("bbbbb");
     Document doc = docBuilder.parse (new File("C:\\matches.xml"));
//      normalize text representation
     doc.getDocumentElement ().normalize ();
     /* For each child one  */
     NodeList MatchNo = doc.getElementsByTagName("MatchNo");
     Element MatchNoElement = (Element)MatchNo.item(0);
     NodeList textMatchNo = MatchNoElement.getChildNodes();
     MatchNo = ((Node)textMatchNo.item(0)).getNodeValue().trim();
     /* For each child one  */
     /* For each child one  */
     NodeList Date = doc.getElementsByTagName("Date");
     Element DateElement = (Element)Date.item(0);
     NodeList textDate = DateElement.getChildNodes();
     Date =  ((Node)textDate.item(0)).getNodeValue().trim();
     /* For each child one  */
     /* For each child one  */
     NodeList Time = doc.getElementsByTagName("Time");
     Element TimeElement = (Element)Time.item(0);
     NodeList textTime = TimeElement.getChildNodes();
     Time =((Node)textTime.item(0)).getNodeValue().trim();
     /* For each child one  */
     /* For each child one  */
     NodeList Team1 = doc.getElementsByTagName("Team1");
     Element Team1Element = (Element)Team1.item(0);
     NodeList textTeam1 = Team1Element.getChildNodes();
     Team1 = ((Node)textTeam1.item(0)).getNodeValue().trim();
     /* For each child one  */
     /* For each child one  */
     NodeList Team2 = doc.getElementsByTagName("Team2");
     Element Team2Element = (Element)Team2.item(0);
     NodeList textTeam2 = Team2Element.getChildNodes();
     Team2 = ((Node)textTeam2.item(0)).getNodeValue().trim();
     /* For each child one  */
     /* For each child one  */
     NodeList Venue = doc.getElementsByTagName("Venue");
     Element VenueElement = (Element)Venue.item(0);
     NodeList textVenue = VenueElement.getChildNodes();
     Venue = ((Node)textVenue.item(0)).getNodeValue().trim();
     /* For each child one  */
     NodeList listOfActionObject = doc.getElementsByTagName("row");
      totalActionObject= listOfActionObject.getLength();
      for(int s=0; s<listOfActionObject.getLength() ; s++){
      Node firstActionObjectNode = listOfActionObject.item(s);
            if(firstActionObjectNode.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE){
                NodeList matchList = firstActionObjectElement.getElementsByTagName("MatchNo");
                Element  matchElement = (Element)matchList.item(0);
                NodeList textMatchList = matchElement.getChildNodes();
               MatchNo =((Node)textMatchList.item(0)).getNodeValue().trim();
                NodeList dateList = firstActionObjectElement.getElementsByTagName("Date");
                Element dateElement = (Element)dateList.item(0);
                NodeList textDateList = dateElement.getChildNodes();
              Date =((Node)textDateList.item(0)).getNodeValue().trim();
                NodeList timeList = firstActionObjectElement.getElementsByTagName("Time");
                Element timeElement = (Element)timeList.item(0);
                NodeList textTimeList = timeElement.getChildNodes();
                Time =((Node)textTimeList.item(0)).getNodeValue().trim();
                NodeList team_1List = firstActionObjectElement.getElementsByTagName("Team_1");
                Element team_1Element = (Element)team_1List.item(0);
                NodeList textTeam_1List = team_1Element.getChildNodes();
                Team1 =((Node)textTeam_1List.item(0)).getNodeValue().trim();
                NodeList team_2List = firstActionObjectElement.getElementsByTagName("Team_2");
                Element team_2Element = (Element)team_2List.item(0);
                NodeList textTeam_2List = team_2Element.getChildNodes();
                Team_2 =((Node)textTeam_2List.item(0)).getNodeValue().trim();
                NodeList venueList = firstActionObjectElement.getElementsByTagName("Venue");
                Element venueElement = (Element)venueList.item(0);
                NodeList textVenueList = venueElement.getChildNodes();
                Venue=((Node)textVenueList.item(0)).getNodeValue().trim();
                System.out.println("Match Number: " +MatchNo);
                System.out.println("Date1:" +Date);
                System.out.println("Time1: " +Time);
                System.out.println("Team_1: " +Team1);
                System.out.println("Team_2: " +Team2);
                System.out.println("Venue: " +Venue);
                 catch (SAXParseException err) {
                     System.out.println ("** Parsing error" + ", line " + err.getLineNumber () + ", uri " + err.getSystemId ());
                     System.out.println(" " + err.getMessage ());
                     }catch (SAXException e) {
                     Exception x = e.getException ();
                     ((x == null) ? e : x).printStackTrace ();
                     }catch (Throwable t) {
                     t.printStackTrace ();
                     System.exit (0);
          I am getting Complie time errors like
C:\Startup\XMLToConsole.java:53: incompatible types
found : java.lang.String
required: org.w3c.dom.NodeList
     MatchNo = ((Node)textMatchNo.item(0)).getNodeValue().trim();
^
C:\Startup\XMLToConsole.java:60: incompatible types
found : java.lang.String
required: org.w3c.dom.NodeList
     Date = ((Node)textDate.item(0)).getNodeValue().trim();
^
C:\Startup\XMLToConsole.java:67: incompatible types
found : java.lang.String
required: org.w3c.dom.NodeList
     Time =((Node)textTime.item(0)).getNodeValue().trim();
^
C:\Startup\XMLToConsole.java:74: incompatible types
found : java.lang.String
required: org.w3c.dom.NodeList
     Team1 = ((Node)textTeam1.item(0)).getNodeValue().trim();
^
C:\Startup\XMLToConsole.java:81: incompatible types
found : java.lang.String
required: org.w3c.dom.NodeList
     Team2 = ((Node)textTeam2.item(0)).getNodeValue().trim();
^
C:\Startup\XMLToConsole.java:88: incompatible types
found : java.lang.String
required: org.w3c.dom.NodeList
     Venue = ((Node)textVenue.item(0)).getNodeValue().trim();
^
6 errors
Tool completed with exit code 1
can any one sort out what the error is and reply me

Answer 1

One thing I see is that you do not have nodes with a name of "MatchNo", for example. You have nodes with a node name of "field", some of whichi have an attribute named "name" wiht a value of "MatchNo".
You might need to use XPath with a string of
"/row/field[@name='MatchNo']"
to find what you want..
I'm not sure what is causing your compiler errors.
Dave Patterson