parsing XML String using XmlPullParser in Android

i am trying to parse the following XML

 <ArrayOfArtist xmlns:xsi="http://ift.tt/ra1lAU"   
    xmlns:xsd="http://ift.tt/tphNwY" xmlns="http://tempuri.org/">
   <Artist>
  <place>1</place>
   <Name>Mr Guy</Name>
     </Artist>
    <Artist>
    <place>2</place>
   <Name>Mr Buddy</Name>
     </Artist>
    <Artist>
    <place>3</place>
     <Name>Mr Friend</Name>
    </Artist>
    </ArrayOfArtist>                 

this is what i tried. Album is a class having String name and place. the output should be name:Mr Guy place:1 name:Mr Buddy place:2 name: Mr Friend place:3

                 ArrayList<Album> products = null;   
                    Album a=null;
                     while(xpp.getEventType() !=XmlPullParser.END_DOCUMENT){
                         String name=null;
                         switch (xpp.getEventType()){
                         case XmlPullParser.START_DOCUMENT:
                            products = new ArrayList();
                             break;
                         case XmlPullParser.START_TAG:
                             name = xpp.getName();
                             Log.e(TAG,"name is"+xpp.getName());
                             if (xpp.getName().equals("ArrayOfArtist")){
                                 Log.e(TAG,"herehere");
                                 a = new Album();
                             } else if (a != null){
                                 if (name.equals("Artist")){
                                     Log.e(TAG,"artart");
                                     }
                                 if (name.equals("place")){
                                     Log.e(TAG,"placeplace");
                                    a.place = xpp.nextText();
                                 }
                                 else if (name.equals("name")){
                                     Log.e(TAG,"namename");
                                     a.name = xpp.nextText();
                                 } 
                             }
                             break;

                         case XmlPullParser.END_TAG:
                             name = xpp.getName();
                             if (name.equalsIgnoreCase("ArrayOfArtist") && a != null){

                                 products.add(a);
                             } 
                 } 
                         xpp.next();
                     }
                     printProducts(products);
            }
            catch (Exception e){

            }

       }
    }
    private void printProducts(ArrayList<Album> products)
    {
        String content = "";
        Iterator<Album> it = products.iterator();
        while(it.hasNext())
        {
            Log.e(TAG,"hete");
            Album currProduct  = it.next();
            content = content + "name :" +  currProduct.name + "\n";
            content = content + "place :" +  currProduct.place + "\n";

        }

        TextRecieved.setText("content is: "+content);
    }

the output i am getting is: content is:name:null place:3