problem parsing xml in java

[shadylookin]

I'm trying to parse an xmlString with java, but I'm having some problems



import java.io.StringReader;

import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;

import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;

public class XMLTest {

public static void main(String args[]) {

String dummyString = "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?><test><possibleCheating numberOfTimesDeactive=\"3\" numberOfSecondsDeactive=\"15\" /></test>";
try {
DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();

Document answeredTest = db.parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(
dummyString)));
System.out.println(answeredTest.toString());

String numberOfDeactives = answeredTest.getElementById(
"possibleCheating").getAttribute("numberOfTimesDeactive");
String numberOfSecondsDeactive = answeredTest.getElementById(
"possibleCheating").getAttribute("numberOfSecondsDeactive");
System.out.println("student left the test " + numberOfDeactives
+ " times for a total of " + numberOfSecondsDeactive
+ " seconds");
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}

}


It outputs


[#document: null]
java.lang.NullPointerException
at XMLTest.main(XMLTest.java:23)


It looks like when I try and parse it nothing is happening then I get the null pointer. Anyone know what's wrong or an alternative way to do this?

[myrtle1908]

Personally I don't care for those parsers. I prefer dom4j


import org.dom4j.DocumentHelper;
import org.dom4j.Document;
import org.dom4j.Element;

public class Test {
public static void main(String args[]) {
try {
String s = "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?><test><possibleCheating numberOfTimesDeactive=\"3\" numberOfSecondsDeactive=\"15\" /></test>";
Document d = DocumentHelper.parseText(s);
Element r = d.getRootElement();
Element pc = (Element)r.selectSingleNode("possibleCheating");
System.out.println(pc.attributeValue("numberOfTimesDeactive"));
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}

The above loads an XML Document from a string. You can use a SAXReader to load from a file eg.


org.dom4j.io.SAXReader sr = new org.dom4j.io.SAXReader();
org.dom4j.Document d = sr.read(yourFile);

dom4j: http://dom4j.org

Download here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dom4j/files/ (get dom4j-1.6.1.tar.gz)

You will want the following JARs in your build/run path: 'dom4j-1.6.1.jar', 'jaxen-1.1-beta-6.jar' and 'jaxme-api-0.3.jar' ... these are in the ZIP available above.

[Axos]

You need to use getElementsByTagName rather than getElementById...



NodeList nl = answeredTest.getElementsByTagName("possibleCheating");
Element possibleCheating = (Element) nl.item(0);

String numberOfDeactives = possibleCheating.getAttribute("numberOfTimesDeactive");
String numberOfSecondsDeactive = possibleCheating.getAttribute("numberOfSecondsDeactive");

[myrtle1908]

You need to use getElementsByTagName rather than getElementById...



NodeList nl = answeredTest.getElementsByTagName("possibleCheating");
Element possibleCheating = (Element) nl.item(0);

String numberOfDeactives = possibleCheating.getAttribute("numberOfTimesDeactive");
String numberOfSecondsDeactive = possibleCheating.getAttribute("numberOfSecondsDeactive");


This is why I prefer dom4j's selectSingleNode and general XPath queries. XML is structured. You generally know what you want. No good having to select a list of common elements and assume zeroeth element. I prefer to "dive right in" and get what I need. Still, you answered the OPs question better than I did :)

[shadylookin]

You need to use getElementsByTagName rather than getElementById...



NodeList nl = answeredTest.getElementsByTagName("possibleCheating");
Element possibleCheating = (Element) nl.item(0);

String numberOfDeactives = possibleCheating.getAttribute("numberOfTimesDeactive");
String numberOfSecondsDeactive = possibleCheating.getAttribute("numberOfSecondsDeactive");


Thanks a bunch.

And while the dom4j looks nicer and can directly parse strings I want to avoid adding adding more third party libraries if possible.

[alexlfe]

I have a problem in Ubuntu...
with special character, because i have developer a program in windows and work fine but in ubuntu no, why?

In this code...

DocumentBuilder db;
db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
Document document;
document = db.parse(pathFileXML);
document.getDocumentElement().normalize();
System.out.println("Result:" + this.getAsString(document));

I have the output with fine special chacter, for example:
èàéò

while the same program in ubuntu don't work...
like ƒÂ¨ÃƒÂ¨ÃƒÂ¨ ÃÂ

why...
the code is the same...

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