Thread: Help with XML Parsing

I was working with XML parsing.Since I am learning it just now it would be good if somebody helps me to find the errors in my code

This is the code snippet:


I have declared all the variables correctly...

.....
.....

try {
          myURL = new URL(fao_addr);
	}
catch (MalformedURLException e)
 {
	System.out.println(e);
	e.printStackTrace();
}
 
	try {
			feed = xmlReader.read(fao_addr);
          	} catch (DocumentException e) {
			System.out.println(e);
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
 
	String xpathExpression = "/Data/FAO";
        nodes = feed.selectNodes(xpathExpression);
 
 
        String xpathExpression2 = "/Data/FAO/region/hasMember";
        List<? extends Node> subnodes = feed.selectNodes(xpathExpression2);
 
        System.out.println("The FAO Members by region in "+language+ " language are : ");
 
 
        for (Node node : nodes) {
 
        	Node region = node.selectSingleNode("region");
        	System.out.println(region.getText());
        	for(Node subnode : subnodes)
        	{
        		String acc_variable="nameShort"+language;
        		Node short_name = subnode.selectSingleNode(acc_variable);
        		System.out.println(short_name.getText()+"\n");                      //Error Here..
        	}
 
        }

This is the XML file I am trying to access

http://www.fao.org/countryprofiles/g...FAOByRegion/EN

This is the error I get in the mentioned line

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException


Thanks in advance

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