I am parsing an XML file.

i.e.

<people>

     <person  firstname="John" lastname="Doe"  age="50" />

     <person  firstname="Thomas" lastname="Jefferson" age="260" />

<people>

I have created Person.java with the following attributes:

private String firstName;

private String lastName;

private int age;

My main method parses the XML, loops through each person, and gets the attributes for each.

I need to create instances of my Person class.

I could write something like this:

Person person = new Person();

for (int i = 0; i < attributes.getLength; i++) {

  if (attribute.getName(i) = "firstname") { person.firstName = attribute.getValue(i);}

  if (attribute.getName(i) = "lastname") { person.lastName = attribute.getValue(i); }

  if (attribute.getName(i) = "age") { person.age = attribute.getValue(i); }

}

Since my actual XML has quite a few attributes, I would rather do something like this:

Person person = new Person();

for (int i = 0; i < attributes.getLength(); i++) {

  person[attribute.getName(i)] = attribute.getValue(i);

}

This doesn't work.  Does anyone know if I can make this work?

Thanks,

Ray