Parsing XML in Java, how frustrating...

<%@page import="java.net.*" %>
<%@page import="java.io.*" %>
<%@page import="javax.xml.xpath.*" %>
<%@page import="org.xml.sax.*" %>
<%@page import="javax.xml.parsers.*" %>
<%@page import="org.w3c.dom.*" %>

  

<% 
   String urlToRead = "http://acme.com:8101/sbresource?SCHEMA/httptest/version";
      URL url;
      HttpURLConnection conn;
      BufferedReader rd;
      String line;
      String xml = "";
      String version = "N/A";
      try {
         url = new URL(urlToRead);
         conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
         conn.setRequestMethod("GET");
         rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream()));
         while ((line = rd.readLine()) != null) {
          xml += line;
         }
         rd.close();
      } catch (Exception e) {
         e.printStackTrace();
      }
      XPathFactory factory = XPathFactory.newInstance();
      XPath xpath = factory.newXPath();
      //String expression = "//xs:element[@name='version']/@id";
      String expression = "//*";
      DocumentBuilder builder = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder();
      InputSource is = new InputSource(new StringReader(xml));
      Document document = builder.parse(is);
      out.write("parsed");
      Node widgetNode = (Node) xpath.evaluate(expression, document, XPathConstants.NODE);
      out.write("evaluated");
      out.write(widgetNode.getTextContent());
      out.write("widgetNode is null? " + (widgetNode == null));
%>

I promise you, this is hell when you compare to XML Parsing in Groovy or Python...