How to do XPath or XML parsing in Android

Question

I have string variable which contains XML of the form:

<item>
    <descriptin>abc</descripton>
    <title>def</title>
</item> 

I want to the display the title text in a listview but I'm getting XML when I use:

String s=hitdoc.get("text")

I'm working with Lucene search in android if that helps.

Answer 1

I want to the display the title text

You need to evaluate an XPath expression like:

/item/title/text()

this selects any text node (in your case just a single one) that is a child of a title that is a child of the top element named item

Or, to get the string directly, evaluate this XPath expression:

string(/item/title)