java - Parse a simple xml string -

i have simple xml , want retrieve value held in 'string' either true or false. there lots of suggested methods complex! best way this?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <string xmlns="http://tempuri.org/">"true"</string> 

i able read xml xmlreader below.

xmlreader xmlreader = saxparserfactory.newinstance()                         .newsaxparser().getxmlreader();            inputsource source = new inputsource(new stringreader(response.tostring())); xmlreader.parse(source); 

how value out of reader?

here 1 not need xml. two-liner:

string xmlcontent = response.tostring(); string value = xmlcontent.replacefirst("(?sm)^.*<string[^>]*>([^<]*)<.*$", "$1");  if (value == xmlcontent) { // no replace     throw new illegalstateexception("not found"); } boolean result = boolean.valueof(value.trim().tolowercase()); 

with xml 1 do:

documentbuilderfactory factory = documentbuilderfactory.newinstance(); documentbuilder builder = factory.newdocumentbuilder(); document doc = builder.parse(inputsource); string xml = doc.getdocumentelement().gettextcontent();