Importing XML into Java. Help needed Please!!!

Question

Hi,
I have downloaded j2sdk1.4.1_05 and want to configure it to import XML files into a DOM in Java. I am having trouble doing this and need help. I read that version 1.4 support JAXP 1.1 but I am having trouble finding the JAXP-api.jar file. It says to put all the other Jar files into a folder and leave the JAXP-api.jar.
Could you please tell me how to set up Java so that I can import an XML file. I also downloaded JAXP 1.2. But there seems to be no installer.
Thanx John

Answer 1

You can learn about reading xml in java by reading the J2EE tutorial at
http://java.sun.com/j2ee/1.4/docs/tutorial/doc/
Here is sample program to read XML file into a DOM taken from this tutorial
(http://java.sun.com/j2ee/1.4/docs/tutorial/doc/JAXPXSLT4.html)
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.parsers.FactoryConfigurationError;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import org.xml.sax.SAXParseException;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.DOMException;
import java.io.*;
public class TransformationApp
  static Document document;
  public static void main(String argv[])
    if (argv.length != 1) {
      System.err.println (
        "Usage: java TransformationApp filename");
      System.exit (1);
    DocumentBuilderFactory factory =
      DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
    //factory.setNamespaceAware(true);
    //factory.setValidating(true);
    try {
      File f = new File(argv[0]);
      DocumentBuilder builder =
        factory.newDocumentBuilder();
      document = builder.parse(f);
    } catch (SAXParseException spe) {
      // Error generated by the parser
      System.out.println("\n** Parsing error"
        + ", line " + spe.getLineNumber()
        + ", uri " + spe.getSystemId());
      System.out.println("  " + spe.getMessage() );
      // Use the contained exception, if any
      Exception x = spe;
      if (spe.getException() != null)
        x = spe.getException();
      x.printStackTrace();
    } catch (SAXException sxe) {
      // Error generated by this application
      // (or a parser-initialization error)
      Exception x = sxe;
      if (sxe.getException() != null)
        x = sxe.getException();
      x.printStackTrace();
    } catch (ParserConfigurationException pce) {
      // Parser with specified options can't be built
      pce.printStackTrace();
    } catch (IOException ioe) {
      // I/O error
      ioe.printStackTrace();
  } // main
} If you have java 1.4 sdk installed everything should compile and run. Separate
JAXP package is nor required - JAXP is included in rt.jar in java-home-directory/jre/lib.