title: Android XML Parser not working but runs
body: <p>I'm still not sure what the issue is...  it runs but nothing is displayed. Ideas?</p>
  
  <pre><code>package com.androidpeople.xml.parsing;
  
  import java.net.URL;
  
  import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
  import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
  
  import org.w3c.dom.Document;
  import org.w3c.dom.Element;
  import org.w3c.dom.Node;
  import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
  import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
  
  import android.app.Activity;
  import android.os.Bundle;
  import android.widget.LinearLayout;
  import android.widget.TextView;
  
  public class XMLParsingDOMExample extends Activity {
  
   @Override
   public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
  
    /** Create a new layout to display the view */
    LinearLayout layout = new LinearLayout(this);
    layout.setOrientation(1);
  
    /** Create a new textview array to display the results */
    TextView name[];
    TextView website[];
    TextView category[];
  
    try {
  
     URL url = new URL(
       "http://www.androidpeople.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/example.xml");
     DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
     DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
     Document doc = db.parse(new InputSource(url.openStream()));
     doc.getDocumentElement().normalize();
  
     NodeList nodeList = doc.getElementsByTagName("item");
  
     /** Assign textview array lenght by arraylist size */
     name = new TextView[nodeList.getLength()];
     website = new TextView[nodeList.getLength()];
     category = new TextView[nodeList.getLength()];
  
     for (int i = 0; i &lt; nodeList.getLength(); i++) {
  
      Node node = nodeList.item(i);
  
      name[i] = new TextView(this);
      website[i] = new TextView(this);
      category[i] = new TextView(this);
  
      Element fstElmnt = (Element) node;
      NodeList nameList = fstElmnt.getElementsByTagName("name");
      Element nameElement = (Element) nameList.item(0);
      nameList = nameElement.getChildNodes();
      name[i].setText("Name = "
        + ((Node) nameList.item(0)).getNodeValue());
  
      NodeList websiteList = fstElmnt.getElementsByTagName("website");
      Element websiteElement = (Element) websiteList.item(0);
      websiteList = websiteElement.getChildNodes();
      website[i].setText("Website = "
        + ((Node) websiteList.item(0)).getNodeValue());
  
      category[i].setText("Website Category = "
        + websiteElement.getAttribute("category"));
  
      layout.addView(name[i]);
      layout.addView(website[i]);
      layout.addView(category[i]);
  
     }
    } catch (Exception e) {
     System.out.println("XML Pasing Excpetion = " + e);
    }
  
    /** Set the layout view to display */
    setContentView(layout);
  
   }
  }
  </code></pre>