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Process an XML document

Given the XML Document:

<shopping>
  <item name="bread" quantity="3" price="2.50"/>
  <item name="milk" quantity="2" price="3.50"/>
</shopping>

Print out the total cost of the items, e.g. $14.50
perl
#! /usr/bin/perl
# -*- Mode: CPerl -*-

use strict;
use XML::Simple;
use Data::Dumper;

# Given the XML Document:
#
# <shopping>
# <item name="bread" quantity="3" price="2.50"/>
# <item name="milk" quantity="2" price="3.50"/>
# </shopping>
#
# Print out the total cost of the items, e.g. $14.50

my $xml =
" <shopping>\n"
." <item name=\"bread\" quantity=\"3\" price=\"2.50\"/>\n"
." <item name=\"milk\" quantity=\"2\" price=\"3.50\"/>\n"
." </shopping>\n";

my $xs = XML::Simple->new();
my $ref = $xs->XMLin($xml);
my $stuff = ${$ref}{item};

my $q;
my $p;
my $t;
my $z;

foreach my $item ( sort keys %{$stuff}){
$q = ${$stuff}{$item}{quantity};
$p = ${$stuff}{$item}{price};
$z = $q*$p;
printf "%5.5s %2d @\$%5.2f = \$%5.2f\n",$item,$q,$p,$z;
$t += $z;
}
printf "Total \$%5.2f\n",$t;

#eos
use strict;
use XML::Twig;

use Data::Dumper;

my $xml = <<ENDXML;
<shopping>
<item name="bread" quantity="3" price="2.50"/>
<item name="milk" quantity="2" price="3.50"/>
</shopping>
ENDXML

my $xt = XML::Twig->parse( $xml );

my $price;
foreach my $item ($xt->root->children('item')) {
$price += ($item->{att}{price} * $item->{att}{quantity})
}

printf "Total Cost: %.2f\n", $price


java
// solution uses JAXP and SAX included in Java API since version >= 1.5
class ShoppingContentHandler extends DefaultHandler {
Double priceSum = 0d;
@Override
public void startElement(String uri, String localName, String name,
Attributes attributes) throws SAXException {
if(name.equals("item")) {
String quantityString = attributes.getValue(attributes.getIndex("quantity"));
String priceString = attributes.getValue(attributes.getIndex("price"));
Integer quantity = Integer.parseInt(quantityString);
Double price = Double.parseDouble(priceString);
priceSum += (quantity * price);
}
}
public Double getPriceSum() {
return priceSum;
}
}

SAXParserFactory parserFactory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
try {
SAXParser parser = parserFactory.newSAXParser();
XMLReader reader = parser.getXMLReader();
ShoppingContentHandler contentHandler = new ShoppingContentHandler();
reader.setContentHandler(contentHandler);
reader.parse(new InputSource(new FileReader("shopping.xml")));
System.out.printf("$%.2f", contentHandler.getPriceSum());

} catch (ParserConfigurationException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (SAXException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}