(Android) An simple example use of a XML pull parser.

XMLPullParserExample.java

public String parseInputStream(InputStream inputStream) throws Exception 
{	
	XmlPullParser parser = Xml.newPullParser();
	parser.setInput(inputStream, null);
        
        int eventType = parser.getEventType();
        while (eventType != XmlPullParser.END_DOCUMENT) {
        	
            switch (eventType){
                case XmlPullParser.START_DOCUMENT:
                    break;
                case XmlPullParser.START_TAG:
                	
                    String tagName = parser.getName();
                    if (tagName.equalsIgnoreCase("status")) 
                    {
                    	String statusText = parser.nextText();
                    	
                    	return statusText;
                    }
            }
            eventType = parser.next();
        }
        
        // No status tag found so throw an exception
        throw new RuntimeException("No Status tag found in XML document");
}