Apache Tika - Extracting XML Document

Example - Extracting Content and Metadata from a XML Document

Given below is the program to extract content and metadata from a XML Document.

TikaDemo.java

package com.tutorialspoint.tika;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.tika.exception.TikaException;
import org.apache.tika.metadata.Metadata;
import org.apache.tika.parser.ParseContext;
import org.apache.tika.parser.xml.XMLParser;
import org.apache.tika.sax.BodyContentHandler;

import org.xml.sax.SAXException;

public class TikaDemo {

   public static void main(final String[] args) throws IOException,SAXException, TikaException {

      //detecting the file type
      BodyContentHandler handler = new BodyContentHandler();
      Metadata metadata = new Metadata();
      FileInputStream inputstream = new FileInputStream(new File("D:/projects/example.xml"));
      ParseContext pcontext = new ParseContext();
      
      //Xml parser
      XMLParser xmlparser = new XMLParser(); 
      xmlparser.parse(inputstream, handler, metadata, pcontext);
      System.out.println("Contents of the document:" + handler.toString());
      System.out.println("Metadata of the document:");
      String[] metadataNames = metadata.names();
      
      for(String name : metadataNames) {
         System.out.println(name + ": " + metadata.get(name));
      }
   }
}

Output

Given below is the snapshot of example.xml file

This document has the following properties −

After executing the above program you will get the following output.

Contents of the document:
 
 Ramesh
 50000
 20
 
 Shabbir
 70000
 25
 
 Umesh
 50000
 30

Metadata of the document:
Content-Type: application/xml