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Thanks David & Chris. That's the direction I needed.
David E. Jones wrote:
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> Here's the method you're looking for:
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> public static Document readXmlDocument(String content, boolean validate)
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> 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.
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> 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
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> On Mar 29, 2007, at 12:47 PM, Walter Vaughan wrote:
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>> Chris Howe wrote:
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>>>> <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
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