xml quiz in j2me

[yafy]

hi folks,

i want to develop a Quiz game in j2me. I ve one xml file spinsports.xml where
there are 8 categories tag. In each category there are 100 Questions tag with 4 answers tag each .


- <CATEGORY ID="1">
<QUESTION ID="1" Q="How often is the Ryder Cup Match held?" A1="EVERY TWO YEARS" A2="EVERY YEAR" A3="EVERY FOUR YEARS" A4="EVERY THREE YEARS" CORRECT="A1" TYPE="1" />
<QUESTION ID="2" Q="Who is the nephew of the legendary Sam Snead?" A1="TIGER WOODS" A2="J.C. SNEAD" A3="MILLER BARBER" A4="JOHN BLAND" CORRECT="A2" TYPE="1" /> ...
</CATEGORY>
-<CATEGORY ID="2"><....>

Im using Netbeans 5.0.In my game i want to parse this xml file and for every click of "play button" in
a question from selected category should be displayed.

Plz suggest me, waht r all the basic steps i have to follow since im a beginner in xml parsing.also i have gone thru many eg with kxml parsing.Plz give me all kind of sample codings.

thanks in advance
yafy

[prashant332]

You can go thriugh the document in SDN in link http://developers.sun.com/techtopics...es/parsingxml/. This has an example as well. This might help you.

[juarezjunior]

Hi yafi,

I've found the article below very interesting. It discusses XML parsing and lightweight parsers in JME context.

XML in J2ME
http://trix2.cellmania.com/downloads...E_20060301.pdf

BR,

Juarez Jr

[yafy]

thanks a lot prashant332 and juarezjunior,

I run that example program RSSMidlet given in the article of prashant332.
It compiles successfully. but while running it shows
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Null URL.

Plz suggest how to solve this issue.

thanks
yafy

[prashant332]

Check out the line, String url = getAppProperty("RSSMIDlet.URL"); in your code. Here if you are not setting the URL as property, it will get null and throws an exception as the one you are getting.
Add the url of the xml file u are using as user defined key value pair in the project. Make sure to give the key as "RSSMIDlet.URL".

Regds,
Prashant

[yafy]

hi
im using netbeans5.0 . In the manifest and jad file i set
RSSMIDlet.URL : E:\spinsports.xml . followed by MIDlet-name ,MIDlet-vendor...etc .But still getting the same error.Am i right?

otherwise ,as you said how to set the user defined key value pair in the project.
plz suggest the steps to be followed.


thanks in advance
yafy