dom4j parse xml

import org.dom4j.Document;
import org.dom4j.io.SAXReader;
import org.dom4j.Element;

Document document = null; 

SAXReader saxReader = new SAXReader(); 
String fileName = HmtFileReader.getAbsolutePath("appInfo.xml");

document = saxReader.read(new File(fileName)); 

 Element root = document.getRootElement();

int date =  Integer.parseInt(root.element("date").getStringValue());