I am working on a project where I need to read in an XML file and use the information in the file to analyze user input. More specifically the file looks like this.

```
<course>
<category  name="Course Name">
    <category name="Exams">
        <item name="Midterm" outof="110.0" weight="17.0"></item>
        <item name="Final Exam" outof="110.0" weight="18.0"></item>
    </category>

    <category name="Individual Assignments">
            <item name="Swing GUI Conference Program" outof="50.0" weight="7.5">     </item>
            <item name="Assignment 2" outof="50.0" weight="7.5">     </item>
            <item name="Assignment 3" outof="50.0" weight="7.5">     </item>
            <item name="Assignment 4" outof="50.0" weight="7.5">     </item>

    </category>

    <category name="Group Projects">
        <item name="Lab Selector Project" outof="75.0" weight="15"></item>
        <item name="Android Project" outof="75.0" weight="15"></item>
    </category>

    <category name="Homework, Quizzes, Participation">
        <item name="01 - GUI Using Dialog Boxes" outof="20.0" weight="2.5"></item>
        <item name="02 - GUID Using Menu Files" outof="20.0" weight="2.5"></item>
    </category> 

</category>

```

What I need to be able to do is pull this information so that I can use it in a grade calcualtor application.

Edit: Several of you have mentions SAX/DOM editor and I've searched and tried both of those methods but when I try to implement them it comes back will blank strings. I think it has to do with all the examples I find looking like this:

```
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<school>
 <student id="1">
  <firstname>ankush</firstname>
  <lastname>thakur</lastname>
  <email>beingjavaguy.gmail.com</email>
  <phone>7678767656</phone>
 </student>
 <student id="2">
  <firstname>aarti</firstname>
  <lastname>gupta</lastname>
  <email>aartigupta.gmail.com</email>
  <phone>9876546545</phone>
 </student>
</school>

```

Whereas my xml file has all the information stored in the opening tag and not stored in between the open and close tags.