henderjm@gmail.com schrieb:

With two sentences, you've mentioned three problems and my crystal ball
is unable to tell me which is the one you want to have a solution for:

a) how to process an XML file
b) how to create instances of JCheckBox
c) how to add instances of JCheckBox to a container

So, below is a small (quick & dirty) example that creates instances of
JCheckBox based on the text content of an XML document's "Name" nodes.
The document is considered to be stored in a file "file.xml".

import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import javax.xml.parsers.*;
import org.w3c.dom.*;

import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.GridLayout;
import javax.swing.*;

public class CheckBoxFactory {
    private Document doc;

    public CheckBoxFactory( InputStream xmlStream ) throws
            ParserConfigurationException, org.xml.sax.SAXException,
            IOException {
        DocumentBuilderFactory builderFactory =
                DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
        DocumentBuilder builder = builderFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
        doc = builder.parse( xmlStream );
    }

    public List<JCheckBox> getCheckBoxes() {
        NodeList nodes = doc.getElementsByTagName("Name");
        int n = nodes.getLength();

        List<JCheckBox> result = new ArrayList<JCheckBox>(n);

        for ( int i = 0; i < n; i++ ) {
            Element name = (Element)nodes.item(i);
            result.add( new JCheckBox(name.getTextContent()) );
        }

        return result;
    }

    public static final void main( String args[] ) throws Exception {
        CheckBoxFactory factory = new CheckBoxFactory(
                new FileInputStream("file.xml") );

        JPanel panel = new JPanel( new GridLayout(0,1) );
        for ( JCheckBox cb : factory.getCheckBoxes() )
            panel.add( cb );

        JFrame frame = new JFrame("Test");
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation( JFrame.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE );
        frame.getContentPane().add( panel, BorderLayout.NORTH );
        frame.pack();
        frame.setVisible( true );
    }
}

Bye
Michael