XmlPullParser getAttributeValue returns null

Question

I have the following XML structure stored in my assets / xml folder:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <homescreen> <homeitem name="Name1" subtext="Description1" icon="iconresource1" /> <homeitem name="Name2" subtext="Description2" icon="iconresource2" /> <homeitem name="Name3" subtext="Description3" icon="iconresource3" /> </homescreen> 

I read every homeitem using XmlPullParser:

 int event; String TAG_ITEM = "homeitem"; while ((event = parser.next()) != XmlPullParser.END_DOCUMENT) { if (event == XmlPullParser.START_TAG) { String tag = parser.getName(); if (TAG_ITEM.equals(tag)) { // Works - Logs "Name1" Log.d(LOG_NAME, parser.getAttributeValue(0)); // Works - Logs "name" Log.d(LOG_NAME, parser.getAttributeName(0)); // Works - Logs "" Log.d(LOG_NAME, parser.getAttributeNamespace(0)); // Fails - Logs null Log.d(LOG_NAME, parser.getAttributeValue(XmlPullParser.NO_NAMESPACE, "name")); } } } 

My problem: using getAttributeValue(String, String) always returns null . Using getAttributeValue(Integer) works great. What am I doing wrong?

Device: Nexus 10, Stock KitKat 4.4

Answer 1

try the following:

 parser.getAttributeValue(null, "name");