import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.StringReader;
import java.util.ArrayList;

import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;

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 org.xml.sax.SAXException;


import com.gtomato.disneyhalloween2012.pojo.MapPin;

public class PlistParser {
	// parse Plist and fill in arraylist
	public ArrayList<MapPin> parsePlist(String xml) {
		final ArrayList<MapPin> dataModels = new ArrayList<MapPin>();
		// Get the xml string from assets

		final Document doc = XMLfromString(xml);

		final NodeList nodes_array = doc.getElementsByTagName("dict");

		// Fill in the list items from the XML document
		for (int index = 0; index < nodes_array.getLength(); index++) {

			final Node node = nodes_array.item(index);

			if (node.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE) {
				final Element e = (Element) nodes_array.item(index);

				final NodeList nodeKey = e.getElementsByTagName("key");
				final NodeList nodeValue = e.getElementsByTagName("string");
//				MapPin model = new MapPin();

				for (int i = 0; i < nodeValue.getLength(); i++) {

					final Element eleKey = (Element) nodeKey.item(i);
					final Element eleString = (Element) nodeValue.item(i);

					if (eleString != null) {

						String strValue = getValue(eleString, "string");

						if (getValue(eleKey, "key").equals("gameid")) {
							//model = new MapPin();
							//model.setGameId(Integer.parseInt(strValue));
						} else if (getValue(eleKey, "key").equals("drawid")) {
							//model.setDrawId(Integer.parseInt(strValue));
						} else if (getValue(eleKey, "key").equals("dname")) {
							//model.setDrawName(strValue);
						} else if (getValue(eleKey, "key").equals("date")) {
							//model.setDate(strValue);
						} else if (getValue(eleKey, "key").equals("prize")) {
							//model.setPrize(strValue);
						} else if (getValue(eleKey, "key").equals("sels")) {
							if (strValue == null) {
								strValue = "";
							}
							//model.setSels(strValue);
							//dataModels.add(model);
						}
					}
				}
			}
		}
		return dataModels;
	}

	// Create xml document object from XML String
	private Document XMLfromString(String xml) {
		Document doc = null;

		DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
		try {
			DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
			InputSource is = new InputSource();
			is.setCharacterStream(new StringReader(xml));
			doc = db.parse(is);
		} catch (ParserConfigurationException e) {
			System.out.println("XML parse error: " + e.getMessage());
			return null;
		} catch (SAXException e) {
			System.out.println("Wrong XML file structure: " + e.getMessage());
			return null;
		} catch (IOException e) {
			System.out.println("I/O exeption: " + e.getMessage());
			return null;
		}

		return doc;
	}

	// fetch value from Text Node only
	private String getElementValue(Node elem) {
		Node kid;
		if (elem != null) {
			if (elem.hasChildNodes()) {
				for (kid = elem.getFirstChild(); kid != null; kid = kid
						.getNextSibling()) {
					if (kid.getNodeType() == Node.TEXT_NODE) {
						return kid.getNodeValue();
					}
				}
			}
		}
		return "";
	}

	// / Fetch value from XML Node
	private String getValue(Element item, String str) {
		NodeList n = item.getElementsByTagName(str);
		return getElementValue(n.item(0));
	}
}

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