Hi, I'm looking for your recommendations to parse ...

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[louiscad]

Hi, I'm looking for your recommendations to parse a simple xml file that doesn't go deeper than 3 levels.
Here's an example of the kind of files I'm going to parse: https://dl.google.com/dl/android/maven2/androidx/lifecycle/lifecycle-runtime/maven-metadata.xml

In the end, I want to get a list of the available versions. Is there a light library that I should use, or is that overkill and I should just use Kotlin stdlib to do it? Thanks for your input!

[Evan R.]

Looks like there are some Java libraries built-in that you can leverage: https://stackoverflow.com/a/5059312

[Matteo Mirk]

You could use either Jackson (https://grokonez.com/kotlin/kotlin-convert-kotlin-object-xml-file-xml-string-jackson#Convert_XML_to_Kotlin_object) or this small lib: https://github.com/jonnyzzz/kotlin.xml.bind

[louiscad]

Thanks for the input. I ended up using the stdlib only to parse the files in a basic but sufficient way with only 4 lines of code: https://github.com/jmfayard/buildSrcVersions/blob/e234168b6dc22b8084fc47d8d8328cb5bf056bac/refreshVersions/src/main/kotlin/de/fayard/versions/LatestVersionRetrieval.kt#L43-L47

[Matteo Mirk]

Ok, good if it works for you, but remember that parsing context-free languages with string search/regex can be brittle, but works for very simple cases