iterate through xml get elements

[plork123]

hi all can someone please tell me how i convert a string to xml, so that i can iterate through it and grab the elements and their values

e.g. if my string is this
String xml = "<person><firstname>first</firstname><lastname>first</lastname></person>";

i want to iterate through to get the firstname and lastname elements and then get their vlaues

thanks for any help

 

[Diancecht]

You should post questions like this in the Java forum.

Anyway, take a look at

http://java.sun.com/webservices/jaxp/dist/1.1/docs/tutorial/dom/1_read.html

taken from

http://java.sun.com/xml/tutorial_intro.html

Cheers,
Dian