(Android™) Parsing XML Children Having Identical Tags

Demonstrates how to deal with XML where child elements may have identical tags.

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// Important: Don't forget to include the call to System.loadLibrary
// as shown at the bottom of this code sample.
package com.test;

import android.app.Activity;
import com.chilkatsoft.*;

import android.widget.TextView;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class SimpleActivity extends Activity {

  private static final String TAG = "Chilkat";

  // Called when the activity is first created.
  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    // This example will get the phoneNumber's and groupMembershihpInfo's from the following XML:

    // <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
    // <someEntries>
    //     <entry>
    //         <id>123</id>
    //         <updated>2017-07-19T05:19:57.761Z</updated>
    //         <app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2017-07-19T05:19:57.761Z</app:edited>
    //         <category scheme="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#kind" term="http://schemas.google.com/contact/2008#contact"/>
    //         <title>George Costanza</title>
    //          <gd:name>
    //             <gd:fullName>George Costanza</gd:fullName>
    //             <gd:givenName>George</gd:givenName>
    //             <gd:familyName>Costanza</gd:familyName>
    //         </gd:name>
    //         <gd:phoneNumber rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#home">(555) 123-4567</gd:phoneNumber>
    //         <gd:phoneNumber rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#mobile">(555) 444-8877</gd:phoneNumber>
    //         <gd:phoneNumber rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#work">(555) 678-1111</gd:phoneNumber>
    //         <gContact:groupMembershipInfo deleted="false" href="http://www.google.com/123"/>
    //         <gContact:groupMembershipInfo deleted="false" href="http://www.google.com/456"/>
    //     </entry>
    // </someEntries>
    // 

    CkXml xml = new CkXml();

    boolean success = xml.LoadXmlFile("qa_data/xml/georgeCostanza.xml");

    int numPhoneNumbers = xml.NumChildrenHavingTag("entry|*:phoneNumber");
    int i = 0;
    while (i < numPhoneNumbers) {
        CkXml xPhoneNumber = xml.GetNthChildWithTag("entry|*:phoneNumber",i);
        Log.i(TAG, xPhoneNumber.content());

        i = i + 1;
        }

    Log.i(TAG, "----");

    int numGroupMemberships = xml.NumChildrenHavingTag("entry|*:groupMembershipInfo");
    i = 0;
    while (i < numGroupMemberships) {
        CkXml xMembership = xml.GetNthChildWithTag("entry|*:groupMembershipInfo",i);
        Log.i(TAG, xMembership.getAttrValue("href"));

        i = i + 1;
        }


  }

  static {
      System.loadLibrary("chilkat");

      // Note: If the incorrect library name is passed to System.loadLibrary,
      // then you will see the following error message at application startup:
      //"The application <your-application-name> has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."
  }
}