parsing xml string with DocumentBuilder

the parse() method requires an InputStream, using StringReader wont compile.

Tried doc.normalize() but still printed out the same results. Perhaps this is an encoding issue? I am getting this file out of a zip file using java objects (ZipFile, ZipItem, etc..)

I tried running your code on my machine & it is providing me correct results..!
import java.io.StringReader;

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

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

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public class TestCase {

public void TryIt()throws Exception
{
      String xmlstring="<SURVEY><LIST_MULTIMEDIA><MULTIMEDIA><MULT_TYPE>JPG</MULT_TYPE><MULT_REF>test.jpg</MULT_REF>              <MULT_DESC>test logo</MULT_DESC></MULTIMEDIA></LIST_MULTIMEDIA></SURVEY>";

//        the code
                        // xmlstring = "<SURVEY>......";
                        DocumentBuilderFactory dbf=DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
                        DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
                        Document doc = db.parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(xmlstring)));
                        //SiteReport siteReport = new SiteReport();          
           
                        NodeList survey_c = doc.getChildNodes().item(0).getChildNodes();
                        System.out.println("survey_c length: " + survey_c.getLength());
                        for (int i = 0; i < survey_c.getLength(); i++) {
                              Node thisNode = survey_c.item(i);
                              // get multimedia references
                              if (thisNode.getNodeName().equalsIgnoreCase("LIST_MULTIMEDIA")) {
                                    NodeList list_multimedia_c = thisNode.getChildNodes();
                                    System.out.println("list_multimedia_c length: " + list_multimedia_c.getLength());
                                    for (int j = 0; j < list_multimedia_c.getLength(); j++) {
                                          Node multimedia = list_multimedia_c.item(j);
                                          NodeList multimedia_c = multimedia.getChildNodes();
                                          System.out.println("multimedia_c length: " + multimedia_c.getLength());
                                          String type = "";
                                          String ref = "";
                                          String desc = "";
                                          for (int k = 0; k < multimedia_c.getLength(); k++) {
                                                Node mediaNode = multimedia_c.item(k);
                                                if (mediaNode.getNodeName().toUpperCase().equalsIgnoreCase("MULT_TYPE")) {
                                                      type = mediaNode.getNodeValue();
                                                } else if (mediaNode.getNodeName().toUpperCase().equalsIgnoreCase("MULT_REF")) {
                                                      ref = mediaNode.getNodeValue();
                                                } else if (mediaNode.getNodeName().toUpperCase().equalsIgnoreCase("MULT_DESC")) {
                                                      desc = mediaNode.getNodeValue();
                                                }
                                          }
                                    //      siteReport.addMediaFile(new MediaFile(type, ref, desc));
                                    }

                                    // get survey coordinates
                              } else if (thisNode.getNodeName().equalsIgnoreCase("")) {
                                    // TODO
                              }
                        }            
                        // add to site report vector
                  //      siteReports.add(siteReport);

}
public static void main(String args[])
{
      try{
            new TestCase().TryIt();
      }
      catch(Exception e)
      {
            e.printStackTrace();
      }
}

}


Following are the results that I got...

survey_c length: 1
list_multimedia_c length: 1
multimedia_c length: 4

so most probably the XML string that you are receiving in this method are not what you are thinking they should be...

>> the parse() method requires an InputStream, using StringReader wont compile.

Sorry it has an overload which needs an InputSource - you can use it the way kuldeep as suggested.

(the input source being from the string reader)

Well thats working, I got better numbers but still alittle off...however: The XML I provided was only one node (for simplicity)..some of the other nodes have special characters..

What special characters would blow up the parser? Apostrophe, comma? Should I use a regex to replace those characters? (of course I dont see any < or > which is obvious.)

The special characters have escape sequences available, e.g., &lt for < and &gt for >

Yeah its just more spaces, I just removed line returns, but spaces was messing it up also.

>>Yeah its just more spaces, I just removed line returns, but spaces was messing it up also.

As I said the XML Parser counts spaces as valid nodes... thats why normalize should be used..

or a pre parser which takes out the spaces & linefeeds from the source.
ASP.NET is much better this regards..:-)

I guess as per the DOM specification, it is actually supposed to count them :)

Well a simple regex replace with the whitespace char should fix it.

normalize() was not removing the white space...at least with my implementation.

I was going to try Xerces but it looks a little to bloated for what I need.