// apt-get install libjdom2-java; add jdom2.jar to the classpath
import java.io.File;
import java.util.List;
import org.jdom2.Document;
import org.jdom2.Element;
import org.jdom2.input.SAXBuilder;

public class MondialJDOMSimple {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
  try {
      SAXBuilder builder = new SAXBuilder();
      Document doc = (Document) builder.build(new File("../mondial.xml"));
      Element mondial = doc.getRootElement();
      List<Element> countries = mondial.getChildren("country");
      String firstcode = countries.get(0).getAttributeValue("car_code");
      System.out.println(firstcode);
  } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); }
}}