kxml2 Parsing Simple XML - java-me

Question

I'm trying to parse a simple XML file in my j2me application. But the parsing fails:
XML File
<companies>
<company CompanyId="6">
<CompanyName>Test Company 1</CompanyName>
<SapNumber>0</SapNumber>
<RootCompanyId>1</RootCompanyId>
<ParentCompanyId /> </company>
</companies>
Parser Snippet
KXmlParser parser = new KXmlParser();
parser.setInput(new InputStreamReader(new ByteArrayInputStream(input.getBytes())));
parser.nextTag();
parser.require(XmlPullParser.START_TAG, null, "companies");
while(parser.nextTag() == XmlPullParser.START_TAG)
{
Company temp_company = new Company();
parser.require(XmlPullParser.START_TAG, null, "company");
String CompanyID = parser.getAttributeValue(0);
temp_company.putValue("CompanyId", CompanyID);
while(parser.nextTag() == XmlPullParser.START_TAG)
{
if(parser.getName() == "CompanyName")
{
temp_company.putValue("CompanyName", parser.nextText());
}
}
parser.require(XmlPullParser.END_TAG, null, "company");
listCompany.put(CompanyID, temp_company);
}
parser.require(XmlPullParser.END_TAG, null, "elements");

Answer 1

I guess I can see what is going wrong here. After you have matched the <company> tag and obtained the value of the CompanyId attribute, you enter a while loop. But observe what will happen at this point:
The first time you execute the while condition, the parser will match the <CompanyName> start tag, thus the if condition will be true and you will obtain the text inside the tag.
I am not too intimate with the inner workings of kXml but on the second iteration your parser state must be either pointing at the text node (that is inside the <CompanyName> tag) or at the end tag (ie. </CompanyName>). Either way, you while condition will fail because you are not at a start tag.
At this point you require that the next tag be the end tag of <company>, however, your state has still not changed and this will not be satisfied.
My best guess is that the internal pointer is pointing at the text node inside <CompanyName> and that is why you get the "unexpected type (position: Text: Test Company1..." message.