Read an XML file java

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Hi all I have an XML file in java which holds a 2d array of numbers it looks something like\[code\]<tableNumbers> <row id="0"> <column id="0"> 4 </column> <column id="1"> 2 </column> <column id="2"> 5 </column> <column id="3"> 6 </column> </row> <row id="1"> <column id="0"> 5 </column> <column id="1"> 10 </column> <column id="2"> 7 </column> <column id="3"> 9 </column> </row></tableNumbers>\[/code\]Now every row in the table has the same number of colums and what I am trying to do is cycle through the xml and store the number from the XML file into an Integer array. (e.g. row 0 column 0 would be stored in numbers[0][0].The code I currently have is:\[code\]public static Integer[][] getNumbers(File file, int noRows, int noColums){ Integer[][] numbersArray = new Integer[noRows][noColumns]; DocumentBuilderFactory docBuilderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); try { Document document = docBuilderFactory.newDocumentBuilder().parse(file); Element rootElement = document.getDocumentElement(); NodeList rowList = rootElement.getElementsByTagName("row"); if ((rowList != null)) for (int i = 0; i < rowList.getLength(); i++) { NodeList columnsList = rowList.item(i).getChildNodes(); if ((columnsList != null)) for (int j = 0; j < columnsList.getLength(); j++) { Element number = (Element) columnsList.item(j); System.out.println("(" +i + "," + j + ") " + number.getNodeValue()); numbersArray[j] = number.getNodeValue(); } } return numbersArray; } catch (Exception c){} return null;}\[/code\]A few lines from the standard the output are:\[code\](0,0) null(0,1) null(0,2) null(0,3) null(1,0) null(1,1) null(1,2) null(1,3) null\[/code\]The value which is returned from all the cells is \[code\]null\[/code\]. I know the error is reading from the xml file. If anyone could show me where I am going wrong I would be most grateful