InputStreams and Readers

It's time to reverse the examples of Chapters 3 and 4. Instead of putting information into an XML document, I'm going to take information out of one. In particular, I'm going to use an example that reads the response from the Fibonacci XML-RPC servlet introduced in Chapter 3. This document takes the form shown in Example 5.1.

Example 5.1. A Response from the Fibonacci XML-RPC Server
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<methodResponse>
  <params>
    <param>
      <value><double>28657</double></value>
    </param>
  </params>
</methodResponse>

The clients for the XML-RPC server developed in Chapter 3 simply printed the entire document on the console. Now I want to extract just the answer and strip out all of the markup. In this situation, the user ...

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