I'm pretty new to XML, and I need to use some for a game I'm writing. I need to parse an XML file into game objects. For LibGdx, the XML documentation isn't great, so any tips or code examples would be awesome.

<items>
	<item id="1" name="sword">
		<description text="Just a regular sword."/>
		<wieldable slot="HAND"/>
		<weapon damage = "3"/>
	</item>
</items>

What I need to do is, for each "item":

create an in-game Item object

set id and name to the proper values

Loop through the remaining elements and add each one as a component for that item with the arguments as properties.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

I'm getting an error on

root = reader.parse("items/Items.xml");

Exception in thread "LWJGL Application" com.badlogic.gdx.utils.SerializationException: Error parsing XML on line 1 near: items/Items.xml

Any ideas?

Any ideas?

I said inputXmlString, not pathToXmlFile. It's thinking the string you're passing it is the XML (not the path to an XML file).

You should look at the other parse() methods. There are ones that take a Reader, InputStream, or a FileHandle. Use the appropriate one.

That makes more sense, the Parse(FileHandle) Method worked perfectly. Thank you.

Also, is there any way to see all of the elements inside of <item>?

I've got it figured out.

		//Loop through each "Item"
		for (Element child : items){
			//Loop through each Item's components
			int numberOfChildren = child.getChildCount();
			Array<Element> components = new Array<Element>();
			for(int i = 0; i < numberOfChildren; i++){
				components.add(child.getChild(i));
			}
		}