How to get 'name' attribute of item of string-array?

how to get 'name' attribute of item of string-array

• Hi I build a quiz application. I have the following (values/)question.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <resources> <string-array name="question"> <item name="correct">A</item> <item name="wrong">B</item> <item name="wrong">C</item> <item name="wrong">D</item> </string-array> </resources> I would like to have a question with four possible answers but when i retrieve my answers in Java.. I don't know which answer is correct. So I decided to use name attribute in the item tags to pass a value of 'correct' or 'wrong' answer. Is there anyway to get the name along with the tag value? because when i use String[] test = res.getStringArray(R.array.question); I can only get the value of each item in my array. or because this is my 1st time in Android. is there other suitable approach to do this? thanks

• Answer:

  You need to use Handler to parse the xml. to get attribute value, code is : attributes.getValue("name") Try these links for reference: http://www.androidpeople.com/android-xml-parsing-tutorial-using-saxparser and http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/x-android/