Re: Need to parse java string with XML data

Posted by David E Jones on
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Need-to-parse-java-string-with-XML-data-tp145266p145271.html


Here's the method you're looking for:

public static Document readXmlDocument(String content, boolean validate)

Even if you pass false for validate the XML content DOES need to be  
at least well formed so that the parser can do something with it.

What you passed in isn't actually XML, not just not well formed, but  
just not XML. It has less than and greater than signs, but that's  
about where the similarity ends. So, you'd probably have to write a  
parser by hand and while you could use one of the many good parsing  
tool sets out there, for something this small a few java.lang.String  
operations may be sufficient.

-David


On Mar 29, 2007, at 12:47 PM, Walter Vaughan wrote:

> Chris Howe wrote:
>
>>> <number=3106799433><name=><dnis=2149><state=active>
>> I don't believe that to be well-formed XML. I suspect there is a  
>> parent
>> to those "elements" and if there is, it should look like this...
>> As child elements:
>> <parent>
>>   <number>3106799433</number>
>>   <name/>
>>   <dnis>2149</dnis>
>>   <state>active</state>
>> </parent>
>> or..
>> as attributes:
>> <parent number="3106799433" name="" dnis="2149" state="active"/>
>
> No that's the way it gets kicked to me. I didn't even think to  
> complain to the server app suppling that data that I'm not getting  
> valid XML.
>
> If I can convince them to supply the data in a well formed XML  
> layout, do you think I can then convert that to something that can  
> be used in an ofBiz service?
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> Walter