[android help] Android ListView doesn't cooperate

I've been studying Android ListViews recently and I'm having some issues. I looked at a few tutorials and got the most basic ListViews working just fine. But now I would like to make a ListView that displays a series of objects. I thought I was doing everything correct. My code does not produce any errors but the List I wish to create does not display at all. Obviously, I'm not sure why.

The Purpose of this application is to compile a list of weather stations and airports and display information (ex. names, ID#, coordinates, etc) - all of which is parsed from an XML document and contained in an Arraylist(Built by a separate class with proper constructors/getters/setters). Basically I get a list of stations then - then from that list - a list of station names set to an Adapter. My ListView should display only the names of each station but to no avail.

I've tested my Parser and My Arrays. It all works, just nothing displays. According to all the tutorials my logic should be correct down to my Adapter. Does anyone have any suggestions? I feel like I'm exhausting all solutions. My code is posted below:

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

//local variables
    String station_id;
    String state;
    String station_name;
    double latitude;
    double longitude;
    String html_url;

//ArrayList stationList = new ArrayList();
public ArrayList stationList = new ArrayList();

 private ListView stationName;
 private ArrayAdapter arrayAdapter;



 //Method for DOM Parser
  public void readXML(){

    try {

        //new xml file and Read
        File file1 = new File("src/fl_wx_index3.xml");
        DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
        DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
        Document doc = db.parse(file1);
        doc.getDocumentElement().normalize();

        NodeList nodeList = doc.getElementsByTagName("station");

        for (int i = 0; i < nodeList.getLength(); i++) {

            Node node = nodeList.item(i);

            if(node.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE){

                final Element first = (Element) node;

                station_id = first.getElementsByTagName("station_id").item(0).getTextContent();
                state = first.getElementsByTagName("state").item(0).getTextContent();
                station_name = first.getElementsByTagName("station_name").item(0).getTextContent();
                latitude = Double.parseDouble(first.getElementsByTagName("latitude").item(0).getTextContent());
                longitude = Double.parseDouble(first.getElementsByTagName("longitude").item(0).getTextContent());
                html_url = first.getElementsByTagName("html_url").item(0).getTextContent();

                //iterate thru list, returning names of each airport
                stationList.add(new Station(station_id, state, station_name, latitude, longitude, html_url));

            }

        }
        } catch (Exception e) {
        System.out.println("XML Pasing Excpetion = " + e);
        }

}



@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
    // Initialize the UI components
    stationName = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.listView1);

    //object for method call to read XML document
        MainActivity activity1 = new MainActivity();
        activity1.readXML();

    //List to contain Weather station Names
     final ArrayList nameList = new ArrayList();

     for (int i = 0; i < stationList.size(); ++i) {
          nameList.add(stationList.get(i).getStationName());
        }

    arrayAdapter = new ArrayAdapter(this, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, nameList);

    // By using setAdapter method, you plugged the ListView with adapter
    stationName.setAdapter(arrayAdapter);

}

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
    getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
    return true;
}

}

Here is a sample of XML:

 

    NOAA's National Weather Service
    http://weather.gov/
    
            http://weather.gov/images/xml_logo.gif
            
            http://weather.gov
    
    08:00 EST
    1140


    NFNA
    FJ
    Nausori
    -18.05
    178.567
    http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/NFNA.html
    http://weather.gov/xml/current_obs/NFNA.rss
    http://weather.gov/xml/current_obs/NFNA.xml



    KCEW
    FL
            Crestview, Sikes Airport
    30.79
    -86.52
            http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/KCEW.html
            http://weather.gov/xml/current_obs/KCEW.rss
            http://weather.gov/xml/current_obs/KCEW.xml

Activity main XML:

xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
tools:context=".MainActivity" >

    android:id="@+id/textView1"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="@string/hello_world" />

    android:id="@+id/listView1"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_below="@+id/textView1"
    android:layout_marginTop="115dp"
    android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/textView1" >

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