Importing/Parsing XML

I have posted the following thread in the SQL/PLSQL forum and would appreciate your input as it is realted to XML.
Re: Importing/Parsing XML using SQL and/or PL/SQL
Thanks in advance for your help
David
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David Ferguson

Hi David, please do visit the XML DB forum. There is an Oracle guy named Mark Drake and he is very good at this stuff. To your questions, yes, Oracle XML DB can handle any type of XML no matter how many levels you have. Check out the XMLTable function in the Oracle XML user's guide and it is pretty powerful. The trick is that it is hard if not impossible to combine singletons and multiples, because multiples require its own handling. I have to deal with this a lot. In some cases, I can use two xmltables, one for the multiples and one for the singlton, repeating the singleton for each of the multiples in one table. In other cases I just do two steps: get the multiples and singltons separately. You will find that using the global temporary table for this type of xml processing comes handy. At our place, some people use BizTalk to "map, orchestrate, factor and re-factor" xml messages from a partner, but I use Oracle XML DB. I have completed all available xml messages (more than 20) in just a short time, but it took the BizTalk consultants almost 5 months to finish one simple xml message! When I say Oracle does a beautiful job, they are not happy so they tell me that I should have been an Oracle salesman.
Ben

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shan

How to parse XML to Java object... please help really stuck

Thank you for reading this email...
If I have a **DTD** like:
<!ELEMENT person (name, age)>
<!ATTLIST person
     id ID #REQUIRED
>
<!ELEMENT name ((family, given) | (given, family))>
<!ELEMENT age (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT family (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT given (#PCDATA)>
the **XML** like:
<person id="a1">
<name>
     <family> Yoshi </family>
     <given> Samurai </given>
</name>
<age> 21 </age>
</person>
**** Could you help me to write a simple parser to parse my DTD and XML to Java object, and how can I use those objects... sorry if the problem is too basic, I am a beginner and very stuck... I am very confuse with SAXParserFactory, SAXParser, ParserAdapter and DOM has its own Factory and Parser, so confuse...
Thank you for your help, Yo

Hi, Yo,
Thank you very much for your help. And I Wish you are there...I'm. And I plan to stay - It's sunny and warm here in Honolulu and the waves are up :)
A bit more question for dear people:
In the notes, it's mainly focus on JAXB,
1. Is that mean JAXB is most popular parser for
parsing XML into Java object? With me, definitely. There are essentially 3 technologies that allow you to parse XML documents:
1) "Callbacks" (e.g. SAX in JAXP): You write a class that overrides 3 methods that will be called i) whenever the parser encounters a start tag, ii) an end tag, or iii) PCDATA. Drawback: You have to figure out where the heck in the document hierarchy you are when such a callback happens, because the same method is called on EACH start tag and similarly for the end tag and the PCDATA. You have to create the objects and put them into your own data structure - it's very tedious, but you have complete control. (Well, more or less.)
2) "Tree" (e.g. DOM in JAXP, or it's better cousin JDOM): You call a parser that in one swoop creates an entire hierarchy that corresponds to the XML document. You don't get called on each tag as with SAX, you just get the root of the resulting tree. Drawback: All the nodes in the tree have the same type! You probably want to know which tags are in the document, don't you? Well, you'll have to traverse the tree and ask each node: What tag do you represent? And what are your attributes? (You get only strings in response even though your attributes often represent numbers.) Unless you want to display the tree - that's a nice application, you can do it as a tree model for JTree -, or otherwise don't care about the individual tags, DOM is not of much help, because you have to keep track where in the tree you are while you traverse it.
3) Enter JAXB (or Castor, or ...): You give it a grammar of the XML documents you want to parse, or "unmarshall" as the fashion dictates to call it. (Actually the name isn't that bad, because "parsing" focuses on the input text while "unmarshalling" focuses on the objects you get, even though I'd reason that it should be marshalling that converts into objects and unmarshalling that converts objects to something else, and not vice versa but that's just my opinion.) The JAXB compiler creates a bunch of source files each with one (or now more) class(es) (and now interfaces) that correspond to the elements/tags of your grammar. (Now "compiler" is a true jevel of a misnomer, try to explain to students that after they run the "compiler", they still need to compile the sources the "compiler" generated with the real Java compiler!). Ok, you've got these sources compiled. Now you call one single method, unmarshall() and as a result you get the root node of the hierarchy that corresponds to the XML document. Sounds like DOM, but it's much better - the objects in the resulting tree don't have all the same type, but their type depends on the tag they represent. E.g if there is the tag <ball-game> then there will be an object of type myPackage.BallGame in your data structure. It gets better, if there is <score> inside <ball-game> and you have an object ballGame (of type BallGame) that you can simply call ballGame.getScore() and you get an object of type myPackage.Score. In other words, the child tags become properties of the parent object. Even better, the attributes become properties, too, so as far as your program is concerned there is no difference whether the property value was originally a tag or an attribute. On top of that, you can tell in your schema that the property has an int value - or another primitive type (that's like that in 1.0, in the early release you'll have to do it in the additional xjs file). So this is a very natural way to explore the data structure of the XML document. Of course there are drawbacks, but they are minor: daunting complexity and, as a consequence, very steep learning curve, documentation that leaves much to reader's phantasy - read trial and error - (the user's guide is too simplicistic and the examples too primitive, e.g. they don't even tell you how to make a schema where a tag has only attributes) and reference manual that has ~200 pages full of technicalities and you have to look with magnifying glas for the really usefull stuff, huge number of generated classes, some of which you may not need at all (and in 1.0 the number has doubled because each class has an accompanying interface), etc., etc. But overall, all that pales compared to the drastically improved efficiency of the programmer's efforts, i.e. your time. The time you'll spend learning the intricacies is well spent, you'll learn it once and then it will shorten your programming time all the time you use it. It's like C and Java, Java is order of magnitude more complex, but you'd probably never be sorry you gave up C.
Of course the above essay leaves out lots and lots of detail, but I think that it touches the most important points.
A word about JAXB 1.0 vs. Early Release (EA) version. If you have time, definitively learn 1.0, they are quite different and the main advantage is that the schema combines all the info that you had to formulate in the DTD and in the xjs file when using the EA version. I suggested EA was because you had a DTD already, but in retrospect, you better start from scratch with 1.0. The concepts in 1.0 are here to stay and once your surmounted the learning curve, you'll be glad that you don't have to switch concepts.
When parser job is done,
what kind of Java Object we will get? (String,
InputStream or ...)See above, typically it's an object whose type is defined as a class (and interface in 1.0) within the sources that JABX generates. Or it can be a String or one of the primitive types - you tell the "compiler" in the schema (xjs file in EA) what you want!
2. If we want to use JAXB, we have to contain a
XJS-file? Something like:In EA, yes. In 1.0 no - it's all in the schema.
I am very new to XML, is there any simpler way to get
around them? It has already take me 4 days to find a
simple parser which give it XML and DTD, then return
to me Java objects ... I mean if that kind of parser
exists....It'll take you probably magnitude longer that that to get really familiar with JAXB, but believe me it's worth it. You'll save countless days if not weeks once you'll start developing serious software with it. How long did it take you to learn Java and it's main APIs? You'll either invest the time learning how to use the software others have written, or you invest it writing it yourself. I'll take the former any time. But it's only my opinion...
Jan

How to parse xml data into java component

hi
everybody.
i am new with XML, and i am trying to parse xml data into a java application.
can anybody guide me how to do it.
the following is my file.
//MyLogin.java
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
class MyLogin extends JFrame implements ActionListener
     JFrame loginframe;
     JLabel labelname;
     JLabel labelpassword;
     JTextField textname;
     JPasswordField textpassword;
     JButton okbutton;
     String name = "";
     FileOutputStream out;
     PrintStream p;
     Date date;
     GregorianCalendar gcal;
     GridBagLayout gl;
     GridBagConstraints gbc;
     public MyLogin()
          loginframe = new JFrame("Login");
          gl = new GridBagLayout();
          gbc = new GridBagConstraints();
          labelname = new JLabel("User");
          labelpassword = new JLabel("Password");
          textname = new JTextField("",9);
          textpassword = new JPasswordField(5);
          okbutton = new JButton("OK");
          gbc.anchor = GridBagConstraints.NORTHWEST;
          gbc.gridx = 1;
          gbc.gridy = 5;
          gl.setConstraints(labelname,gbc);
          gbc.anchor = GridBagConstraints.NORTHWEST;
          gbc.gridx = 2;
          gbc.gridy = 5;
          gl.setConstraints(textname,gbc);
          gbc.anchor = GridBagConstraints.NORTHWEST;
          gbc.gridx = 1;
          gbc.gridy = 10;
          gl.setConstraints(labelpassword,gbc);
          gbc.anchor = GridBagConstraints.NORTHWEST;
          gbc.gridx = 2;
          gbc.gridy = 10;
          gl.setConstraints(textpassword,gbc);
          gbc.anchor = GridBagConstraints.NORTHWEST;
          gbc.gridx = 1;
          gbc.gridy = 15;
          gl.setConstraints(okbutton,gbc);
          Container contentpane = getContentPane();
          loginframe.setContentPane(contentpane);
          contentpane.setLayout(gl);
          contentpane.add(labelname);
          contentpane.add(labelpassword);
          contentpane.add(textname);
          contentpane.add(textpassword);
          contentpane.add(okbutton);
          okbutton.addActionListener(this);
          loginframe.setSize(300,300);
          loginframe.setVisible(true);
     public static void main(String a[])
          new MyLogin();
     public void reset()
          textname.setText("");
          textpassword.setText("");
     public void run()
          try
               String text = textname.getText();
               String blank="";
               if(text.equals(blank))
                  System.out.println("First Enter a UserName");
               else
                    if(text != blank)
                         date = new Date();
                         gcal = new GregorianCalendar();
                         gcal.setTime(date);
                         out = new FileOutputStream("log.txt",true);
                         p = new PrintStream( out );
                         name = textname.getText();
                         String entry = "UserName:- " + name + " Logged in:- " + gcal.get(Calendar.HOUR) + ":" + gcal.get(Calendar.MINUTE) + " Date:- " + gcal.get(Calendar.DATE) + "/" + gcal.get(Calendar.MONTH) + "/" + gcal.get(Calendar.YEAR);
                         p.println(entry);
                         System.out.println("Record Saved");
                         reset();
                         p.close();
          catch (IOException e)
               System.err.println("Error writing to file");
     public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae)
          String str = ae.getActionCommand();
          if(str.equals("OK"))
               run();
               //loginframe.setDefaultCloseOperation(DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);
}

hi, thanks for ur reply.
i visited that url, i was able to know much about xml.
so now my requirement is DOM.
but i dont know how to code in my existing file.
means i want to know what to link all my textfield to xml file.
can u please help me out. i am confused.
waiting for ur reply

How to parse XML against XSD,DTD, etc.. locally (no internet connection) ?

i've searched on how to parse xml against xsd,dtd,etc.. without the needs of internet connection..
but unfortunately, only the xsd file can be set locally and still there needs the internet connection for the other features, properties.
XML: GML file input from gui
XSD: input from gui
javax.xml
package demo;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import javax.xml.XMLConstants;
import javax.xml.transform.Source;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource;
import javax.xml.validation.Schema;
import javax.xml.validation.SchemaFactory;
import javax.xml.validation.Validator;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
public class Sample1WithJavaxXML {
     public static void main(String[] args) {
          URL schemaFile = null;
          try {
               //schemaFile = new URL("http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd");
               File file0 = new File("AppSchema-C01-v1_0.xsd");
               schemaFile = new URL(file0.toURI().toString());
          } catch (MalformedURLException e1) {
               // TODO Auto-generated catch block
               e1.printStackTrace();
          //Source xmlFile = new StreamSource(new File("web.xml"));
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          SchemaFactory schemaFactory = SchemaFactory
              .newInstance(XMLConstants.W3C_XML_SCHEMA_NS_URI);
          //File file1 = new File("XMLSchema.dtd");
          //SchemaFactory schemaFactory = SchemaFactory
               //.newInstance("javax.xml.validation.SchemaFactory:XMLSchema.dtd");
          Schema schema = null;
          try {
               schema = schemaFactory.newSchema(schemaFile);
          } catch (SAXException e1) {
               // TODO Auto-generated catch block
               e1.printStackTrace();
          Validator validator = schema.newValidator();
          try {
            validator.validate(xmlFile);
            System.out.println(xmlFile.getSystemId() + " is valid");
          } catch (SAXException e) {
            System.out.println(xmlFile.getSystemId() + " is NOT valid");
            System.out.println("Reason: " + e.getLocalizedMessage());
          } catch (IOException e) {
               // TODO Auto-generated catch block
               e.printStackTrace();
}Xerces
package demo;
import java.io.File;
import java.util.Date;
import org.apache.xerces.parsers.DOMParser;
public class SchemaTest {
     private String xmlFile = "";
     private String xsdFile = "";
     public SchemaTest(String xmlFile, String xsdFile) {
          this.xmlFile = xmlFile;
          this.xsdFile = xsdFile;
     public static void main (String args[]) {
          File file0 = new File("AppSchema-C01-v1_0.xsd");
          String xsd = file0.toURI().toString();
          SchemaTest testXml = new SchemaTest("C01.xml",xsd);
          testXml.process();
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          File docFile = new File(xmlFile);
          DOMParser parser = new DOMParser();
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               parser.setFeature("http://apache.org/xml/features/validation/schema", true);
               parser.setProperty("http://apache.org/xml/properties/schema/external-noNamespaceSchemaLocation",
                         xsdFile);
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               parser.setErrorHandler(errors);
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               parser.parse(docFile.toString());
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               System.out.print("Problem parsing the file.");
               System.out.println("Error: " + e);
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               return;
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}

Thanks a lot Sir DrClap..
I tried to use and implement the org.w3c.dom.ls.LSResourceResolver Interface which is based on the SAX2 EntityResolver.
please give comments the way I implement it. Here's the code:
LSResourceResolver Implementation
import org.w3c.dom.ls.LSInput;
import org.w3c.dom.ls.LSResourceResolver;
import abc.xml.XsdConstant.Path.DTD;
import abc.xml.XsdConstant.Path.XSD;
public class LSResourceResolverImpl implements LSResourceResolver {
     public LSResourceResolverImpl() {
      * {@inheritDoc}
     @Override
     public LSInput resolveResource(String type, String namespaceURI, String publicId, String systemId, String baseURI) {
          ClassLoader classLoader = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader();
          LSInput input = new LSInputImpl(publicId, systemId, baseURI);
          if ("http://www.w3.org/2001/xml.xsd".equals(systemId)) {
               input.setByteStream(classLoader.getResourceAsStream(XSD.XML));
          } else if (XsdConstant.PUBLIC_ID_XMLSCHEMA.equals(publicId)) {
               input.setByteStream(classLoader.getResourceAsStream(DTD.XML_SCHEMA));
          } else if (XsdConstant.PUBLIC_ID_DATATYPES.equals(publicId)) {
               input.setByteStream(classLoader.getResourceAsStream(DTD.DATATYPES));
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}I also implement org.w3c.dom.ls.LSInput
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.Reader;
import org.w3c.dom.ls.LSInput;
public class LSInputImpl implements LSInput {
     private String publicId;
     private String systemId;
     private String baseURI;
     private InputStream byteStream;
     private String stringData;
     public LSInputImpl(String publicId, String systemId, String baseURI) {
          super();
          this.publicId = publicId;
          this.systemId = systemId;
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}Then, here's the usage/application:
I create XMLChecker class (SchemaFactory implementation is Xerces)
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import javax.xml.XMLConstants;
import javax.xml.stream.FactoryConfigurationError;
import javax.xml.transform.Source;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource;
import javax.xml.validation.Schema;
import javax.xml.validation.SchemaFactory;
import javax.xml.validation.Validator;
import org.xml.sax.ErrorHandler;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import org.xml.sax.SAXParseException;
import abc.xml.XsdConstant.Path.XSD;
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     private ErrorMessage errorMessage = new ErrorMessage();
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          schemas.add(new StreamSource(classLoader.getResourceAsStream(XSD.XLINKS)));
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               Validator validator = schema.newValidator();
               validator.setErrorHandler(new ErrorHandler() {
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                    public void error(SAXParseException e) throws SAXException {
                         errorMessage.setErrorMessage(e.getMessage());
                         errorMessage.setLineNumber(e.getLineNumber());
                         errorMessage.setColumnNumber(e.getLineNumber());
                         throw e;
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                    public void fatalError(SAXParseException e) throws SAXException {
                         errorMessage.setErrorMessage(e.getMessage());
                         errorMessage.setLineNumber(e.getLineNumber());
                         errorMessage.setColumnNumber(e.getLineNumber());
                         throw e;
                    @Override
                    public void warning(SAXParseException e) throws SAXException {
                         errorMessage.setErrorMessage(e.getMessage());
                         errorMessage.setLineNumber(e.getLineNumber());
                         errorMessage.setColumnNumber(e.getLineNumber());
                         throw e;
               StreamSource source = new StreamSource(new File(filePath));
               validator.validate(source);
          } catch (SAXParseException e) {
               return false;
          } catch (SAXException e) {
               errorMessage.setErrorMessage(e.getMessage());
               return false;
          } catch (FactoryConfigurationError e) {
               errorMessage.setErrorMessage(e.getMessage());
               return false;
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               errorMessage.setErrorMessage(e.getMessage());
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          return errorMessage;
}Edited by: erossy on Aug 31, 2010 1:56 AM

How to Parse XML with SAX and Retrieving the Information?

Hiya!
I have written this code in one of my classes:
/**Parse XML File**/
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               e.printStackTrace();
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import org.xml.sax.*;
import org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler;
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     public void endElement(String namespaceURI, String localName, String qualifiedName) throws SAXException
     public void characters(char[] ch, int start, int length) throws SAXException
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          <publisher></publisher>
          <platform></platform>
          <type></type>
          <subtype></subtype>
          <genre></genre>
          <serial></serial>
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          <expantion></expantion>
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          <numDiscs></numDiscs>
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          <locFrom></locFrom>
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          <onLoan></onLoan>
          <borrowed></borrowed>
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I have tried so many things in the startElement() method that I can't actually remember what I've tried and what I haven't! If you need to know, the Game class instantiates with asnew Game(int gameID)and the rest of the variables are public.
Please help someone...

OK, how's this?
public void startElement(String namespaceURI, String localName, String qualifiedName, Attributes atts) throws SAXException
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i have a xlm file looks like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE map SYSTEM "map.dtd">
<map width="20" height="15" goal="25" name="eXtreme Labyrinth of Dooom">
<random-item type='lantern' amount='5' />
<random-item type='health' amount='10' />
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<renderhint>wall:rock,cracked</renderhint>
</tile>
<tile x="15" y="0" type="wall" />
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</tile>
<tile x="17" y="0" type="floor">
<renderhint>floor:stone,rubble</renderhint>
</tile>
<tile x="18" y="0" type="floor" />
<tile x="0" y="1" type="floor" />
<tile x="1" y="1" type="floor" startlocation="1" />
<tile x="2" y="1" type="floor" />
<tile x="3" y="1" type="floor">
<item type="treasure">Bar of Silver</item>
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<tile x="4" y="1" type="wall" />
<tile x="5" y="1" type="wall" />
<tile x="6" y="1" type="wall">
<renderhint>wall:bricks,cracked</renderhint>
</tile>
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<!ELEMENT map (random-item+, tile+)>
<!ATTLIST map
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height CDATA #REQUIRED
goal CDATA #REQUIRED
name CDATA #REQUIRED
<!ELEMENT random-item EMPTY>
<!ATTLIST random-item
type (armour|health|sword|treasure|lantern) #REQUIRED
amount CDATA #REQUIRED
<!ELEMENT tile (item|renderhint)*>
<!ATTLIST tile
x CDATA #REQUIRED
y CDATA #REQUIRED
type (exit|floor|wall) #REQUIRED
startlocation CDATA #IMPLIED
<!ELEMENT item (#PCDATA)>
<!ATTLIST item
type (armour|health|sword|treasure|lantern) #REQUIRED
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Can anyone give ma any suggestions on how to do it?
thank you

i have started my coding like:
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
import org.w3c.dom.*;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import java.io.*;
class loadxml
    public static void main(String[] args)
     try {
          DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
          factory.setValidating(true);
          factory.setIgnoringElementContentWhitespace(true);
          DocumentBuilder parser = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
          Document doc = parser.parse(new File("hallways.xml"));
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          load.parseNode(doc);
     } catch (ParserConfigurationException e) {
          e.printStackTrace();
     } catch (SAXException e) {
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     } catch (IOException e) {
          e.printStackTrace();
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}since in my xml file, i have got ATTLIST, this ready confuses me when i try to coding it.
Can anyone help me, please.
Thank you.
Edited by: mujingyue on Mar 12, 2008 3:10 PM

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