Edit / Modify an XML Element using SAX.

My need is to read,update,delete elements from large (200-700MB) xml files. Because of large files I am using SAX parser. I am able to read the xml using events generated but the issue is how do I modify a perticular attribute or node value, add new node??
Apart from SAX is there any other better solution???
Any help wil be appreciated!!

if you meant "in a simple and quick way that will only change the desired value in the text file" i fear no, you can't

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I can able to parsed one structured XML file using SAX
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     public void startDocument() throws SAXException {
          logger.info("Start of document");
     public void endDocument() throws SAXException {
          logger.info("End of document");
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but the problem is i want to read (parse) any XML file means any Elemets would be change any time using SAX .In the above example
else if (elemName.equals("Heat")) {
else if (elemName.equals("IndexREDId")){
} else if (elemName.equals("Maturity")) {
like above I am doing hard code Elements names and reading the values so i don't want hard coding the elements names I want to read any element name and value dynamically.
If i give any one below XML file i want to read the Elements and displaying to console without changing any code i want to read the XML document.
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Student.XML: <root>..</StName>..</StAge>...</root>
Employee.XML: <root>..</EmpName>..</EmpAge>...</root>
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I need one java program can ready any type of XML file elements and send to the Database table.
Please any one done like this task please suggest some reference links or books or sample snippet which can help me to develop program in my requirement.
Thanks in advance
Regards
satish

You should ask in the Java forum.
Regards
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Edited by: 887737 on Dec 5, 2011 5:52 AM

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I thought the same. The good thing is that the first one is the one I want. The bad thing is that the first one might not necessarily be positioned at the top.
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          <deposit INVITE_PACK="Current">19.88</deposit>
          <deposit INVITE_PACK="Alternate">20.65</deposit>
          <basicPremium INVITE_PACK="Current">198.76</basicPremium>
          <basicPremium INVITE_PACK="Alternate">206.49</basicPremium>
</financials>This data is held in a relational database table and i'm currently gernerating the data from this relational table using something similar to the following:
SELECT xmlagg
       (xmlelement("financials",
                   (select xmlagg(xmlelement("depositDate",
                                             xmlattributes(fi1.quote),
                                             fi1.DEPOSIT_DATE
                                             )) as "depDt_det"
                      FROM (select distinct f1.fulfilment_queue_key,
                                            f1.fq_policy,
                                            f1.quote,
                                            f1.deposit_date
                              from staging.fulfilment_xml_finance_inv1 f1) fi1
                     WHERE fi1.fulfilment_queue_key = fi.fulfilment_queue_key),
                   (select xmlagg(xmlelement("deposit",
                                             xmlattributes(fi1.quote),
                                             fi1.PPD_DEPOSIT)) as "dep_det"
                      FROM (select distinct f1.fulfilment_queue_key,
                                            f1.fq_policy,
                                            f1.quote,
                                            f1.PPD_DEPOSIT
                              from staging.fulfilment_xml_finance_inv1 f1) fi1
                     WHERE fi1.fulfilment_queue_key = fi.fulfilment_queue_key),
                   (select xmlagg(xmlelement("basicPremium",
                                             xmlattributes(fi1.quote),
                                             fi1.BASIC_PREM)) as "bprem_det"
                      FROM (select distinct f1.fulfilment_queue_key,
                                            f1.fq_policy,
                                            f1.quote,
                                            f1.basic_prem
                              from staging.fulfilment_xml_finance_inv1 f1) fi1
                     WHERE fi1.fulfilment_queue_key = fi.fulfilment_queue_key)
FROM staging.fulfilment_xml_finance_inv1 fi
WHERE fi.fulfilment_queue_key = 2861
   AND rownum = 1As can be seen, i'm replicating a number of calls to the fulfilment_xml_finance_inv1 table. I was wondering if there is a way to do the above in a more succinct, supportable and readable fashion? I have a tried a number of differnt methods to do this, but can't seem to get it to work for me. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

Hi again,
No problem, create table statement
-- Create table
create table FULFILMENT_XML_FINANCE_INV1
fulfilment_queue_key          NUMBER(22),
fq_policy                     VARCHAR2(50),
riskversion                   NUMBER(28,7),
basic_prem                    NUMBER(10,2),
os_balance                    NUMBER(10,2),
ppd_deposit                   NUMBER(10,2),
ppd_plan_charge               NUMBER(10,2),
ppd_charge_for_interest       NUMBER(10,2),
ppd_apr_perc                  NUMBER(10,2),
ppd_interest                  NUMBER(22,6),
inst_freq                     VARCHAR2(1),
deposit_date                  DATE,
adj_premium                   NUMBER(19,2),
order1                        NUMBER(38),
amountdue                     NUMBER(28,7),
collection_date               DATE,
paymentduedate                DATE,
scharges                      NUMBER(19,2),
ppd_plan_collection_reference VARCHAR2(20),
reapply_date                  DATE,
reapply_amount                NUMBER(19,2),
last_inst_freq                VARCHAR2(1),
quote                         VARCHAR2(10)
);example inserts
insert into fulfilment_xml_finance_inv1
   (fulfilment_queue_key,
fq_policy,
riskversion,
basic_prem,
os_balance,
ppd_deposit,
ppd_plan_charge,
ppd_charge_for_interest,
ppd_apr_perc,
ppd_interest,
inst_freq,
deposit_date,
adj_premium,
order1,
amountdue,
collection_date,
paymentduedate,
scharges,
ppd_plan_collection_reference,
reapply_date,
reapply_amount,
last_inst_freq,
quote)
values
(2861,
'TEST1234',
3,
198.76,
123.45,
19.88,
0,
99.99,
99.99,
55.55,
'A',
to_date('01/12/2011','dd/mm/yyyy'),
null,
NULL,
NULL,
NULL,
null,
0.00,
'N/A',
NULL,
NULL,
'A',
'Current')
insert into fulfilment_xml_finance_inv1
   (fulfilment_queue_key,
fq_policy,
riskversion,
basic_prem,
os_balance,
ppd_deposit,
ppd_plan_charge,
ppd_charge_for_interest,
ppd_apr_perc,
ppd_interest,
inst_freq,
deposit_date,
adj_premium,
order1,
amountdue,
collection_date,
paymentduedate,
scharges,
ppd_plan_collection_reference,
reapply_date,
reapply_amount,
last_inst_freq,
quote)
values
(2861,
'TEST1234',
3,
206.49,
123.45,
20.65,
0,
99.99,
99.99,
55.55,
'A',
to_date('01/12/2011','dd/mm/yyyy'),
null,
NULL,
NULL,
NULL,
null,
0.00,
'N/A',
NULL,
NULL,
'A',
'Alternate') Hope this is what you were after, please let me know if you need anything else.
Thanks again.

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