Convert MBox into XML into Java Objects

Hello all,
this is a general question, i dont know weather there is such libs or not.
However, please tell me what you know.
i want to program a java application for searching purpose in Mbox.
i thought its possible and easier to try to convert the emails from the MBox into XML files, and from these create java objects when i need or even convert the XML into html for viewing.
Any suggestions are welcome.
Also antoher solutions are greate.
thanks in advance!
Sako.

I don't know what this MBox you speak of is - I assume it's not the thing I use to hook upa guitar to GarageBand. Maybe you mean it as a generic term for mailbox? The easiest solution (to my mind) would be to use a Java API provided by whatever MBox is. If there is no such thing, then if you get XML-formatted version of the messages I suppose writing code to parse the XML into Java Objects would be a good option if you wanted to do further manipulation of them, but if all you want to do is display them as HTML in a browser then just use XSLT to transform them.
Good Luck
Lee

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i dn't know what is the wrong ? i dn't know what are the parameters at what place to pass if you know any thing just let me know
thanks in advance
and i apperciate you help.
Durga

How to bind dynamic xml with Java objects without xsd

have a question, and hope someone here can help me.
In my current project, I will get a xml file, containing some information of each user, and map them into a set of user objects.
For each user, there are some fixed attributes, such as name, phone#, age, position, etc. The problem is, client can customize, and add new attibutes, such as address, favorite color, so there will be no xsd for the xml.
What I want to do, is map fixed attributes to user object attributes, for example, name attribute to User.name, and they will have corresponding getters, and setters, but for custom attributes, I want to add them to a HashMap in User object, for example, use string "ADDRESS" as the key, and address as the value.
Is there any way I can do this? Thank you very much for any help you can provide.

It would not be too hard to do in regular code.
First, make a HashSet with the Strings for the names of the known attributes that will be processed with setters.
Then, get the NamedNodeMap via getAttributes(). That will give you all attributes -- both the ones you will handle with your setters and the ones you will handle via a HashMap.
Then, loop through the NamedNodeMap. For each attribute, get the name and value. If the name is in the HashSet of known values, process it with a list of
if ( attName.equals( "name" ))
whatever.setName( value );
continue;
}If it is not in the HashSet, then set the value into your HashMap with the name and value.
There is no standard way to do this.
Dave Patterson

Help with Deserializer XML to Java Object

Hello,
I need Deserializer a xml to Object using SAX or another technology
My code is the follow:
*          java.io.Writer stringWriter = new StringWriter();*
*          org.apache.axis.encoding.SerializationContext context0 = new SerializationContext(stringWriter,*
*                    null);*
*          javax.xml.namespace.QName qname = new javax.xml.namespace.QName(*
*                    "http://xxxxxx", "WSUpdateDocumentResponse");*
*          org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.BeanSerializer serializer = new BeanSerializer(WSUpdateDocumentResponse.class,*
*                    qname);*
*          serializer.serialize(qname, null, resp, context0);*
*          String deserializaXML = stringWriter.toString();*
The variable deserializaXML contains el XML as String.
+<ns1:WSUpdateDocumentResponse xmlns:ns1="http://xxxxxxx">+
+<documentCode xsi:type="xsd:string" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">+
+43723+
+</documentCode>+
+<updateMessageList xsi:type="ns1:ArrayOfWSUpdateMessage" xsi:nil="true" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"/>+
+</ns1:WSUpdateDocumentResponse>+
That's is ok, but the problem is when, I try The reverse engineering.
The code is the following:
*          org.apache.axis.encoding.Deserializer bean = WSUpdateDocumentResponse.getDeserializer(deserializaXML,*
*                                                                                     WSUpdateDocumentResponse.class,*
*                                                                                     new javax.xml.namespace.QName("http://xxxxxx, "WSUpdateDocumentResponse"));*
*          WSUpdateDocumentResponse resp2 = (WSUpdateDocumentResponse)bean.getValue();*
The object not load correctly, all variables are null.
Any idea?
Thanks.
Regards
P.D.: The bean WSUpdateDocumentResponse was generated with Axis 1.2RC2, i haven't another option by the dependences project

Hi,
Check the methods like getElementById() and getElementByTagName and the corresponding Namespace aware equivalents. Once you have your orders, you can iterate over them and build your target xml.
Personally, I think your teacher sold you a lemon. This is a job that is best done using XSLT and doing this using dom is like using your bicycle to get to saturn when you have a starship available.
cheers,
vidyut

Parse of a xml file to an java object model

Hello,
I'm trying to do a program that receive an xml file and ought to create all the neccesary java objects according to the content of the parsed xml file.
I've all the class created for all the objects that could be present into the xml and the idea is to go down in the tree of nodes recursively until it returns nodes more simple. Then, I create the last object and while I come back of the recursively calls, I create the objects more complex until I reached to the main object.
Until now, I have part of this code, that is the one wich have to parse the parts of the xml.
public static void readFile(String root){
          DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory
               .newInstance();
          try {
               DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
               Scanner scanner = new Scanner(new File(root)).useDelimiter("\\Z");
               String contents = scanner.next();
               scanner.close();
               Document document = builder.parse(new ByteArrayInputStream(contents.getBytes()));
               Node node = null;
               NodeList nodes = null;
               Element element = document.getDocumentElement();
               System.out.println(element.getNodeName());
               NodeList subNodes;
               NamedNodeMap attributes;
               //if (element.hasAttributes())
               visitNodes(element);
          } catch (ParserConfigurationException e) {
               e.printStackTrace();
          } catch (SAXException e) {
               e.printStackTrace();
          } catch (IOException e) {
               e.printStackTrace();
     private static void visitNodes (Node node){
          for(Node childNode = node.getFirstChild(); childNode!=null;){
               if (childNode.getNodeType() == childNode.DOCUMENT_NODE){
                    System.out.println("Document node Name " + childNode.getNodeName());
                    visitNodes(childNode);
               }else if (childNode.getNodeType() == childNode.ELEMENT_NODE){
                    System.out.println("Node Name " + childNode.getNodeName());
                    if (childNode.hasAttributes()){
                         visitAttributes(childNode.getAttributes());
                    if (childNode.hasChildNodes()){
                         visitNodes(childNode);
               }else if (childNode.getNodeType() == childNode.TEXT_NODE && !childNode.getNodeValue().contains("\n\t")){
                    System.out.println("Node value " + childNode.getNodeValue());
               Node nextChild = childNode.getNextSibling();
               childNode = nextChild;
     private static void visitAttributes(NamedNodeMap attributes){
          Node node;
          for(int i = 0; i < attributes.getLength(); i++){
               node = attributes.item(i);
               System.out.print(node.getNodeName() + " ");
               System.out.print(node.getNodeValue() + " ");
              }I don't know the use of childNodeType. For example, I expected that the XML tags with childs in his structure, enter by the option NODE_DOCUMENT and the tags without childs by the ELEMENT_NODE.
But the most important problem I've found are the nodes [#text] because after one ELEMENT_NODE I always found this node and when I ask if the node hasChilds, always returns true by this node.
Has any option to obtain this text value, that finally I want to display without doing other recursively call when I enter into the ELEMENT_NODE option?
When one Node is of type DOCUMENT_NODE or DOCUMENT_COMMENT? My program always enter by the ELEMENT_NODE type
Have you any other suggestions? All the help or idea will be well received.
Thanks for all.

Hello again,
My native language is Spanish and sorry by my English I attemp write as better I can, using my own knowledge and the google traductor.
I have solved my initial problem with the xml parser.
Firstly, I read the complete XML file, validated previously.
The code I've used is this:
public static String readCompleteFile (String root){
          String content = "";
          try {
               Scanner scanner = new Scanner(new File(root)).useDelimiter("\\Z");
               content = scanner.next();
               scanner.close();
          } catch (IOException e) {
               e.printStackTrace();
          return content;
     }Now, I've the file in memory and I hope I can explain me better.
I can receive different types of XML that could be or not partly equals.
For this purpose I've created an external jar library with all the possible objects contained in my xml files.
Each one of this objects depend on other, until found leaf nodes.
For example, If I receive one xml with a scheme like the next:
<Person>
    <Name>Juliet</Name>
    <Father Age="30r">Peter</Father>
    <Mother age="29">Theresa</Mother>
    <Brother>
    </Brother>
    <Education>
        <School>
        </school>
    </education>
</person>
<person>
</person>The first class, which initializes the parse, should selecting all the person tags into the file and treat them one by one. This means that for each person tag found, I must to call each subobject wich appears in the tag. using as parameter his own part of the tag and so on until you reach a node that has no more than values and or attributes. When the last node is completed I'm going to go back for completing the parent objects until I return to the original object. Then I'll have all the XML in java objects.
The method that I must implement as constructor in every object is similar to this:
public class Person{
final String[] SUBOBJETOS = {"Father", "Mother", "Brothers", "Education"};
private String name;
     private Father father;
     private Mother mother;
     private ArrayList brothers;
     private Education education;
     public Person(String xml){
       XmlUtil utilXml = new XmlUtil();
          String xmlFather = utilXml.textBetweenXmlTags(xml, SUBOBJETOS[0]);
          String xmlMother = utilXml.textBetweenXmlTags(xml, SUBOBJETOS[1]);
          String xmlBrothers = utilXml.textBetweenMultipleXmlTags(xml, SUBOBJETOS[2]);
          String xmlEducation = utilXml.textBetweenXmlTags(xml, SUBOBJETOS[3]);
          if (!xmlFather.equals("")){
               this.setFather(new Father(xmlFather));
          if (!xmlMother.equals("")){
               this.setMother(new Father(xmlMother));
          if (!xmlBrothers.equals("")){
            ArrayList aux = new ArrayList();
            String xmlBrother;
            while xmlBrothers != null && !xmlBrothers.equals("")){
              xmlBrother = utilXml.textBetweenXmlTags(xmlBrothers, SUBOBJETOS[2]);
              aux.add(new Brother(xmlBrother);
              xmlBrothers = utilXml.removeTagTreated(xmlBrothers, SUBOBJETOS[2]);
            this.setBrothers(aux);
          if (!xmlEducation.equals("")){
               this.setEducation(new Father(xmlEducation));
}If the object is a leaf object, the constructor will be like this:
public class Mother {
     //Elements
     private String name;
     private String age;
     public Mother(String xml){
          XmlUtil utilXml = new XmlUtil();
          HashMap objects = utilXml.parsearString(xml);
          ArraysList objectsList = new ArrayList();
          String[] Object = new String[2];
          this.setName((String)objects.get("Mother"));
          if (objects.get("attributes")!= null){
               objectsList = objects.get("attributes");
               for (int i = 0; i < objectsList.size();i++){
                 Object = objectsList.get(i);
                 if (object[0].equals("age"))
                   this.setAge(object[1]);
                 else
     }Each class will have its getter and setter but I do not have implemented in the examples.
Finally, the parser is as follows:
import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.NamedNodeMap;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
public class XmlUtil {
     public HashMap parsearString(String contenido){
          HashMap objet = new HashMap();
          DocumentBuilderFactory factory;
          DocumentBuilder builder;
          Document document;
          try{
               if (content != null && !content.equals("")){
                    factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
                    builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
                    document = builder.parse(new ByteArrayInputStream(content.getBytes()));
                    object = visitNodes(document);
               }else{
                    object = null;
          } catch (ParserConfigurationException e) {
               e.printStackTrace();
               return null;
          } catch (SAXException e) {
               e.printStackTrace();
               return null;
          } catch (IOException e) {
               e.printStackTrace();
               return null;
          return object;
     private HashMap visitNodes (Node node){
          String nodeName = "";
          String nodeValue = "";
          ArrayList attributes = new ArrayList();
          HashMap object = new HashMap();
          Node childNode = node.getFirstChild();
          if (childNode.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE){
               nodeName = childNode.getNodeName();
               if (childNode.hasAttributes()){
                    attributes = visitAttributes(childNode.getAttributes());
               }else{
                    attributes = null;
               nodeValue = getNodeValue(childNode);
               object.put(nodeName, nodeValue);
               object.put("attributes", attributes);
          return object;
     private static String getNodeValue (Node node){
          if (node.hasChildNodes() && node.getFirstChild().getNodeType() == Node.TEXT_NODE && !node.getFirstChild().getNodeValue().contains("\n\t"))
               return node.getFirstChild().getNodeValue();
          else
               return "";
     private ArrayList visitAttributes(NamedNodeMap attributes){
          Node node;
          ArrayList ListAttributes = new ArrayList();
          String [] attribute = new String[2];
          for(int i = 0; i < attributes.getLength(); i++){
               atribute = new String[2];
               node = attributes.item(i);
               if (node.getNodeType() == Node.ATTRIBUTE_NODE){
                    attribute[0] = node.getNodeName();
                    attribute[1] = node.getNodeValue();
                    ListAttributes.add(attribute);
          return ListAttributes;
}This code functioning properly. However, as exist around 400 objects to the xml, I wanted to create a method for more easily invoking objects that are below other and that's what I can't get to do at the moment.
The code I use is:
import java.lang.reflect.Constructor;
import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
import java.lang.reflect.Method;
public class UtilClasses {
     public Object UtilClasses(String package, String object, String xml){
          try {
            Class class = Class.forName(package + "." + object);
            //parameter types for methods
            Class[] partypes = new Class[]{Object.class};
            //Create method object . methodname and parameter types
            Method meth = class.getMethod(object, partypes);
            //parameter types for constructor
            Class[] constrpartypes = new Class[]{String.class};
            //Create constructor object . parameter types
            Constructor constr = claseObjeto.getConstructor(constrpartypes);
            //create instance
            Object obj = constr.newInstance(new String[]{xml});
            //Arguments to be passed into method
            Object[] arglist = new Object[]{xml};
            //invoke method!!
            String output = (String) meth.invoke(dummyto, arglist);
            System.out.println(output);
        } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (SecurityException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (NoSuchMethodException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (InvocationTargetException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (InstantiationException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
          return null;
     }This is an example obtained from the Internet that I've wanted modified to my needs. The problem is that when the class calls this method to invoke the constructor and does not fail, this does not do what I expect, because it creates an empty constructor. If not, the parent class gives a casting error.
I hope that now have been more clear my intentions and that no one has fallen asleep reading this lengthy explanation.
greetings.

EXCEL XML into XML - using MessageMapping

Hi
I have an XSLT that I use to convert an Excel XML into another XML format.
But I wonder if there a way to do this via the XI Message Mapping instead?. I have tried but I am stuck at the moment trying to identify particular rows. For instance I need to fill the <desc> tag from the 3rd Cell.
[code]
Original Excel data
       Cell1 Cell2   Cell3            Cell4   Cell5
Row1 | AY02 403KITA Concentrator Kit $91.00 22-01-2005
Row2 | AY02 401KITC Oxygen Reg/Flow $65.00 08-09-2006
[/code]
Input Source file (a cut down version...)
[code]
<Workbook>
<Worksheet>
<Table>
   <Row>
     <Cell>
        <Data>AY02</Data>
     </Cell>
     <Cell>
        <Data>403KITA</Data>
     </Cell>
     <Cell>
        <Data>Concentrator Kit</Data>
     </Cell>
     <Cell>
        <Data>$91.00</Data>
     </Cell>
     <Cell>
        <Data>22-01-2005</Data>
     </Cell>
   </Row>
   <Row>
     <Cell>
         <Data>AY02</Data>
     </Cell>
     <Cell>
         <Data>401KITC</Data>
     </Cell>
     <Cell>
         <Data>Oxygen Reg/Flow Portable</Data>
     </Cell>
     <Cell>
         <Data>$65.00</Data>
     </Cell>
     <Cell>
         <Data>08-09-2006</Data>
     </Cell>
   </Row>
   </Table>
</Worksheet>
</Workbook>
[/code]
Target XML
[code]
<Batch>
<items>
    <item>
      <catlgItemNum>403KITA</catlgItemNum>
      <desc>Concentrator Kit</desc>
      <unitPrice>$91.00</unitPrice>
    </item>
    <item>
      <catlgItemNum>401KITC</catlgItemNum>
      <desc>Oxygen Reg/Flow Portable</desc>
      <unitPrice>$65.00</unitPrice>
</item>
</items>
</Batch>
[/code]

Hi Peter,
Please create the following user-defined function (cache: context):
public static void getIndexedValue(
     String[] a,
     String[] b,
     ResultList result,
     Container container) {
     //write your code here
     Integer iB = new Integer(b[0]);
     result.addValue(a[iB.intValue()]);
You can then set up the following mappings:
Row - item
Data (context Row)
                      getIndexedValue - ...
Constant [1, 2, 3] /
Best regards
Joachim

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