Socket sending xml format

Question

Hi Guys,
I have here this scenario....
I'm listening into a socket and there will be a client that will send string that is in xml format... I'm just confused with xml parsing and with the data that i'm going to receive. Is it the same getting a string and xml?
And for the string (xml format)... how am i going to parse it?

Answer 1

On the client side:
String xml = ....... // Populate as needed
DataOutputStream dataOut = new DataOutputStream(socket.getOutputStream());
dataOut.writeInt(xml.length());
dataOut.writeString(xml);
dataOut.flush();
On the server side:
DataInputStream dataIn = new DataInputStream(socket.getInputStream());
int length = dataIn.readInt();
byte[] buffer = new byte[length];
dataIn.readFully(buffer);
String xml = new String(buffer);
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