LinuxQuestions.org - xml extraction using JDOM

hey guys

i have an xml file which looks something like this

Code:

<LMR>

<REPORT ID="1">

    <DATE>2004-3-19</DATE>

    <CLAIMANT>ABC DEF</CLAIMANT>

    <AGE>35</AGE> ......

the attribute "ID" of the tag REPORT gives me the nth record in the xml file. my requirement is to extract the nth record where n is supplied by a query to a mysql database. i have written the following code using JDOM but am unable to compare the attribute value .... ne ideas where i am going wrong ...

Code:

import java.io.IOException;

import java.util.List;



import org.jdom.*;

import org.jdom.Element;

import org.jdom.JDOMException;

import org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder;

import org.jdom.output.XMLOutputter;





public class readXML {



        public static void main(String[] args) throws JDOMException, IOException {

                SAXBuilder builder = new SAXBuilder();

                Document document = builder.build("d:/report.xml");

                Document doc = new Document();

                Element root = document.getRootElement();

                Element ele = new Element ("OUTPUT");

                //doc.setRootElement(ele);

                List someChild = root.getChildren("REPORT");

                System.out.println(someChild.size());

                

                for (int i=0;i<someChild.size(); i++) {

                        Element temp = (Element) someChild.get(i);

                        String s = temp.getAttributeValue("ID");

                        

                        //Attribute a = temp.getAttributeValue();

                        if (s.trim() == "5") {

                                List children = temp.getChildren();

                        }

                }



        }

}

i cannot get a list of the children of [REPORT ID="5"] .... the if condition is never satisfied

thanks