XML and Dom4J. How to retrieve values with the iterator?

XML and Dom4J. How to retrieve values with the iterator?

I'm iterating through all the data at this webpage (sample xml below) and
I'm confused as to exactly how to get the required values.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet title="XSL_formatting" type="text/xsl"
href="/i/xml/xsl_formatting_rss.xml"?>
<rss xmlns:blogChannel="http://backend.userland.com/blogChannelModule"
version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>Ariana Resources News</title>
<link>http://www.iii.co.uk/investment/detail?code=cotn:AAU.L&amp;display=news</link>
<description />
<item>
<title>Ariana Resources PLC - Environmental Impact Assessment
Submitted for Kiziltepe</title>
<link>http://www.iii.co.uk/investment/detail?code=cotn:AAU.L&amp;display=news&amp;action=article&amp;articleid=9084833&amp;from=rss</link>
<description>Some Article information</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Aug 2013 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
</item>
<item>
<title>Ariana Resources PLC - Directors' Dealings and Holding in
Company</title>
<link>http://www.iii.co.uk/investment/detail?code=cotn:AAU.L&amp;display=news&amp;action=article&amp;articleid=9053338&amp;from=rss</link>
<description>Some Article information</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jul 2013 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
</item>
<item>
<title>Ariana Resources PLC - Directorship Changes</title>
<link>http://www.iii.co.uk/investment/detail?code=cotn:AAU.L&amp;display=news&amp;action=article&amp;articleid=9046582&amp;from=rss</link>
<description>Some Article information</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jul 2013 09:31:00 GMT</pubDate>
</item>
<item>
<title>Ariana Resources PLC - Ariana Resources plc : Capital
Reorganisation</title>
<link>http://www.iii.co.uk/investment/detail?code=cotn:AAU.L&amp;display=news&amp;action=article&amp;articleid=9038706&amp;from=rss</link>
<description>Some Article information</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jul 2013 09:31:00 GMT</pubDate>
</item>
<item>
</channel>
</rss>
I've had a look at the dom4j quickstart guide, although I suspect I'm just
not quite getting it.
How can I iterate in such a fashion that I:
Go through each if it has todays date and...
Get the values of each specificall , and
At this point I've got the below, and I think it's very wrong on the
second loop... any help is hugely appreciated:
//Create a null Document Object
Document theXML = null;
//Get the document of the XML and assign to Document object
theXML = parseXML(url);
//Place the root element of theXML into a variable
Element root = theXML.getRootElement();
// iterate through child elements of root
for ( Iterator i = root.elementIterator(); i.hasNext(); ) {
Element element = (Element) i.next();
// do something
// iterate through child elements of root with element name "item"
for ( Iterator j = root.elementIterator( "item" ); j.hasNext(); ) {
Element foo = (Element) j.next();
String rnsHeadline = "";
String rnsLink = "";
String rnsFullText = "";
String rnsConstituentName = "";
Rns rns = new Rns(null, null, null, null);
}