XmlPullParserFactory factory = XmlPullParserFactory.newInstance(); XmlPullParser parser = factory.newPullParser(); File inputXml = new File("input.xml"); FileInputStream inputStream = new FileInputStream(inputXml); parser.setInput(inputStream, null); int eventType = parser.getEventType(); while (eventType != XmlPullParser.END_DOCUMENT) { switch (eventType) { case XmlPullParser.START_TAG: String elementName = parser.getName(); break; case XmlPullParser.TEXT: String text = parser.getText(); break; case XmlPullParser.END_TAG: break; } eventType = parser.next(); }