Do a getElementsByTagName on a node and do a
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loop
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Any help/advice is appreciated,
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Edited by: 843508 on Mar 10, 2011 1:56 PM
Edited by: 843508 on Mar 10, 2011 1:57 PM
Edited by: 843508 on Mar 10, 2011 2:01 PM

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SQL> ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf
1 WITH t as (select XMLTYPE('
2 <RECSET xmlns:aa="http://www.w3.org">
3 <aa:REC>
4 <aa:COUNTRY>1</aa:COUNTRY>
5 <aa:POINT>1800</aa:POINT>
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10 <aa:TASK>12</aa:TASK>
11 </aa:USER_INFO>
12 <aa:USER_INFO>
13 <aa:USER_ID>5</aa:USER_ID>
14 <aa:TARGET>19</aa:TARGET>
15 <aa:STATE>1</aa:STATE>
16 <aa:TASK>90</aa:TASK>
17 </aa:USER_INFO>
18 </aa:REC>
19 <aa:REC>
20 <aa:COUNTRY>2</aa:COUNTRY>
21 <aa:POINT>2400</aa:POINT>
22 <aa:USER_INFO>
23 <aa:USER_ID>3</aa:USER_ID>
24 <aa:TARGET>14</aa:TARGET>
25 <aa:STATE>7</aa:STATE>
26 <aa:TASK>5</aa:TASK>
27 </aa:USER_INFO>
28 </aa:REC>
29 </RECSET>') as xml from dual)
30 -- END OF TEST DATA
31 select x.country, x.point, y.user_id, y.target, y.state, y.task
32 from t
33 ,XMLTABLE(XMLNAMESPACES('http://www.w3.org' as "aa"),
34 '/RECSET/aa:REC'
35 PASSING t.xml
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37 ,point NUMBER PATH '/aa:REC/aa:POINT'
38 ,user_info XMLTYPE PATH '/aa:REC/*'
39 ) x
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42 PASSING x.user_info
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44 ,target NUMBER PATH '/aa:USER_INFO/aa:TARGET'
45 ,state NUMBER PATH '/aa:USER_INFO/aa:STATE'
46 ,task NUMBER PATH '/aa:USER_INFO/aa:TASK'
47* ) y
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private String loopCountVal;
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return this.loopCountVal;
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then in the reponse.jsp I try to
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Caught exception when evaluating expression '{actionForm.loopCountResult}' with
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application]. Root exception cause: com.bea.wlw.netui.script.xscript.IllegalContextStateException:
The action form for the expression "actionForm["loopCountResult"]" could not be
found
Any help on this will be great.
thanks,
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Thanks,
For your answer. Make sense now. So what will
be the best approach for receiving result from a formbean
in the result jsp.
Thanks,
Subhabrata
Eddie O'Neil <[email protected]> wrote:
Subhabrata--
I'm not exactly sure what the rest of the structure of your
application is, but the "actionForm" binding context can only be used
inside of the <netui:form> tag. Using it outside of this tag will
result in the error that you mention.
You can either pass the data to your page in the request and bind
to
it using the "request" binding context, or you can expose it as a public
property of the page flow and bind to it using the "pageFlow" binding
context. You could also wrap the repeater in a <netui:form> tag if you
have data to submit from the page.
Hope that helps...
Eddie
Subhabrata Sarkar wrote:
Hi,
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public static class CheckforloopcountForm extends FormData
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private String loopCountVal;
public void setLoopCountVal(String loopCountVal)
this.loopCountVal = loopCountVal;
public String getLoopCountVal()
return this.loopCountVal;
public void setLoopCountResult(List loopCountResult)
this.loopCountResult = loopCountResult;
public List getLoopCountResult()
return this.loopCountResult;
now I populate the loopCountReult list with value in
my jpf.
then in the reponse.jsp I try to
get it as
<body>

The result page is showing:

<netui-data:repeater dataSource="{actionForm.loopCountResult}">
<netui-data:repeaterHeader><ol></netui-data:repeaterHeader>
<netui-data:repeaterItem>
<li>
<netui:label value="{container.item}"></netui:label>
</li>
</netui-data:repeaterItem>
<netui-data:repeaterFooter></ol>
</netui-data:repeaterFooter>
</netui-data:repeater>
I get the following error in jsp.
Caught exception when evaluating expression '{actionForm.loopCountResult}'with
available binding contexts [currentTag, session, pageContext, request,
response,>> application. Root exception cause: com.bea.wlw.netui.script.xscript.IllegalContextStateException:
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found
Any help on this will be great.
thanks,
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Is there a way to modify the style sheet so that it transforms an XML document with empty tags as tag / ?

I have extracted some code from codeproject to
reindent an XML document. Does anyone know how I can modify the stylesheet to make it so that the transform of an XML file will result in empty tags showing up as <tag /> instead of <tag></tag>?
// http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/43309/How-to-create-a-simple-XML-file-using-MSXML-in-C
MSXML2::IXMLDOMDocumentPtr FormatDOMDocument(MSXML2::IXMLDOMDocumentPtr pDoc)
LPCSTR const static szStyleSheet =
R"!(<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>)!"
R"!(<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">)!"
R"!( <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>)!"
R"!( <xsl:template match="@* | node()">)!"
R"!( <xsl:copy>)!"
R"!( <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()"/>)!"
R"!( </xsl:copy>)!"
R"!( </xsl:template>)!"
R"!(</xsl:stylesheet>)!";
MSXML2::IXMLDOMDocumentPtr pXmlStyleSheet;
pXmlStyleSheet.CreateInstance(__uuidof(MSXML2::DOMDocument60));
pXmlStyleSheet->loadXML(szStyleSheet);
MSXML2::IXMLDOMDocumentPtr pXmlFormattedDoc;
pXmlFormattedDoc.CreateInstance(__uuidof(MSXML2::DOMDocument60));
CComPtr<IDispatch> pDispatch;
HRESULT hr = pXmlFormattedDoc->QueryInterface(IID_IDispatch, (void**)&pDispatch);
if (SUCCEEDED(hr))
_variant_t vtOutObject;
vtOutObject.vt = VT_DISPATCH;
vtOutObject.pdispVal = pDispatch;
vtOutObject.pdispVal->AddRef();
hr = pDoc->transformNodeToObject(pXmlStyleSheet, vtOutObject);
//By default it is writing the encoding = UTF-16. Let us change the encoding to UTF-8
// <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
MSXML2::IXMLDOMNodePtr pXMLFirstChild = pXmlFormattedDoc->GetfirstChild();
// A map of the a attributes (vesrsion, encoding) values (1.0, UTF-8) pair
MSXML2::IXMLDOMNamedNodeMapPtr pXMLAttributeMap = pXMLFirstChild->Getattributes();
MSXML2::IXMLDOMNodePtr pXMLEncodNode = pXMLAttributeMap->getNamedItem(_T("encoding"));
pXMLEncodNode->PutnodeValue(_T("UTF-8")); //encoding = UTF-8
return pXmlFormattedDoc;
Or, if there is some other method for reindenting a MSXML2::IXMLDOMDocumentPtr object where I can specify how I want empty tags to be stored, that would be great too. However, I don't want it to lose its status of an MSXML2::IXMLDOMDocumentPtr object.
I.e. I would like to still perform operations on the result as if it was still an MSXML2::IXMLDOMDocumentPtr object.
Thanks,
A
Adrian

If anyone is interested, I got an answer on StackOverflow
here.
Adrian

Parsing an XML doc with unavailable entity (DTD)

Hi all,
I am trying to parse an XML file (web.xml) that has the following DOCTYPE in the head of the document:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN" "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd">
<web-app id="WebApp">When the parser starts, it will look for the DTD on the Sun site, however my work firewall blocks access to this so I get an exception when parsing.
To resolve this, I have tried to force the parser to look for a local copy of the DTD instead of the Sun site but to no avail. I still get the same error but don't know why it wont look at the local DTD.
Here is my code:
* InterceptingXml.java
* Created on 04 April 2006, 15:58
* To change this template, choose Tools | Template Manager
* and open the template in the editor.
package org.xmldemos;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URI;
import java.net.URISyntaxException;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.xml.sax.EntityResolver;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
* @author CS781RJ
public class InterceptingXml
 /** Creates a new instance of InterceptingXml */
 public InterceptingXml() { }
 public void parse(String filename)
 try
 // Create an XML parser
 DocumentBuilder builder = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder();
 // Install the entity resolver
 builder.setEntityResolver(new MyResolver());
 // Parse the XML file
 Document doc = builder.parse(new File(filename));
 catch (SAXException e) { e.printStackTrace(); }
 catch (ParserConfigurationException e) { e.printStackTrace(); }
 catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); }
 catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); }
 public class MyResolver implements EntityResolver
 // This method is called whenever an external entity is accessed
 // for the first time.
 public InputSource resolveEntity(String publicId, String systemId)
 try
 System.out.println("publicId: " + publicId + " systemId: " + systemId);
 // Wrap the systemId in a URI object to make it convenient
 // to extract the components of the systemId
 URI uri = new URI(systemId);
 System.out.println("URI scheme: " + uri.getScheme());
 System.out.println("URI scheme specific: " + uri.getSchemeSpecificPart());
 // Check if external source is a file
 if ("http".equals(uri.getScheme()))
 String filename = uri.getSchemeSpecificPart();
 filename = "file:/C:/web-app_2_3.dtd";
 InputSource isrc = new InputSource(new FileReader(filename));
 return isrc;
 catch (URISyntaxException e) { }
 catch (IOException e) { }
 // Returning null causes the caller to try accessing the systemid
 return null;
 public static void main(String[] args)
 InterceptingXml ixml = new InterceptingXml();
 ixml.parse("c:\\web.xml");
}And here is the exception:
init:
deps-jar:
compile-single:
run-single:
publicId: -//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN systemId: http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd
URI scheme: http
URI scheme specific: //java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd
java.net.UnknownHostException: java.sun.com
 at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:177)
 at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:507)
 at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:457)
 at sun.net.NetworkClient.doConnect(NetworkClient.java:157)
 at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:365)
 at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:477)
 at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.<init>(HttpClient.java:214)
 at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(HttpClient.java:287)
 at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(HttpClient.java:299)
 at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getNewHttpClient(HttpURLConnection.java:792)
 at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect(HttpURLConnection.java:744)
 at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.connect(HttpURLConnection.java:669)
 at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:913)
 at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLEntityManager.setupCurrentEntity(XMLEntityManager.java:973)
 at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLEntityManager.startEntity(XMLEntityManager.java:905)
 at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLEntityManager.startDTDEntity(XMLEntityManager.java:872)
 at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDTDScannerImpl.setInputSource(XMLDTDScannerImpl.java:282)
 at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$DTDDispatcher.dispatch(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:1021)
 at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:368)
 at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:834)
 at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:764)
 at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:148)
 at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.DOMParser.parse(DOMParser.java:250)
 at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(DocumentBuilderImpl.java:292)
 at javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder.parse(DocumentBuilder.java:172)
 at org.xmldemos.InterceptingXml.parse(InterceptingXml.java:45)
 at org.xmldemos.InterceptingXml.main(InterceptingXml.java:88)
BUILD SUCCESSFUL (total time: 18 seconds)I have noticed that return isrc; does not get executed even though the debugger steps to the line above it.
Thanks in advance.
Riz

What's the point of all that code in your EntityResolver? Would the code work just as well if the DTD didn't even exist? Then do this:public InputSource resolveEntity(String publicId, String systemId)
 return new InputSource(new StringReader(""));
 }However if you really do need to redirect to a local copy of the DTD then consider this:catch (IOException e) { }can be a real barrier to understanding in the case that an IOException is thrown. At least print a stacktrace. And: the FileReader class wants a file name in its constructor, not a URI. And in this code:String filename = uri.getSchemeSpecificPart();
filename = "file:/C:/web-app_2_3.dtd";you could write this instead:String filename = "file:/C:/web-app_2_3.dtd";which would be both shorter and easier to understand.

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