Internal.text parsed by XML object ?

Is it possible to use the XML object to parse internal xml
instead of loading an external file?
I am writing an application that converts arrays &
objects into xml.
In my development, I am displaying the xml in a text field on
the stage. In testing I want to read this text field as a xml file.
Currently I copy and past the xml from flash into the external xml
file (with notepad) then reload the xml file with
sample_xml.load("xml/sample_1.xml");
Can I point to the text field in flash to get the xml parsing
instead of the external file?
Thanks

Actually two ways:
var myXML:XML = new XML(myTextField.text)
or
var myXML:XML = new XML();
//maybe:
myXML.ignoreWhite=true;
//and later...
myXML.parseXML(myTextField.text);

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Here's what the xml looks like:
<TABLE>
   <EXAMPLE1>
      <difficulty> 0.5 </difficulty>
      <discrimination> 0.7 </discrimination>
      <item> 3 </item>
   </EXAMPLE1>
</TABLE>
Here's the itemRenderer:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Label xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml">
    
    <mx:Script>
    <![CDATA[
        import flash.geom.Matrix;
        import flash.display.GradientType;
        import flash.display.Graphics;
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            m.createGradientBox(unscaledWidth,unscaledHeight);
            var g:Graphics = graphics;
                        trace("data.col3="+data.col3)
            var colors:Array = (data.col3 < 2000 ? [0x0000CC,0x0000FF] : [0x00CC00,0x00FF00]);
            g.clear();
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            // the DataGrid introduces between rows.
            g.drawRect(0, -2, unscaledWidth, unscaledHeight+4 );
            g.endFill();
    ]]>
    </mx:Script>
</mx:Label>

This sample code should answer your question of how to bring data into the renderer automatically. It comes in via the DataGrid dataProvider and then you refer to it in the renderer as data.XYZ, where XYZ is the field in the XML with the data. See FB 3 help sys on e4x syntax.
------------------ mainapp.mxml --------------------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
creationComplete="srvc.send();">
<mx:Script>
    <![CDATA[
      import mx.rpc.events.ResultEvent;
      import mx.collections.XMLListCollection;
      [Bindable] private var xlc:XMLListCollection;
      private function dataHandler(evt:ResultEvent):void{
        xlc = new XMLListCollection(evt.result..EXAMPLE1 as XMLList);
    ]]>
</mx:Script>
<mx:HTTPService id="srvc" url="data2.xml" result="dataHandler(event)"
    resultFormat="e4x"/>
<mx:DataGrid dataProvider="{xlc}">
    <mx:columns>
      <mx:DataGridColumn headerText="Difficulty" dataField="difficulty"/>
      <mx:DataGridColumn headerText="Discrimination" dataField="discrimination"/>
      <mx:DataGridColumn headerText="Item" itemRenderer="MyLabel"/>
    </mx:columns>
</mx:DataGrid>
</mx:Application>
----------- MyLabel.mxml --------------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Label xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml">
<mx:Script>
    <![CDATA[
      import flash.geom.Matrix;
      import flash.display.GradientType;
      import flash.display.Graphics;
      override protected function updateDisplayList(unscaledWidth:Number,
        unscaledHeight:Number):void{
        super.updateDisplayList(unscaledWidth,unscaledHeight);
        this.text = data.col3;
        var m:Matrix = new Matrix();
        m.createGradientBox(unscaledWidth,unscaledHeight);
        var g:Graphics = graphics;
        var colors:Array = (data.col3 < 2000 ? [0x0000CC,0x0000FF] : [0x00CC00,0x00FF00]);
        g.clear();
        g.beginGradientFill(GradientType.LINEAR, colors, [0.2,0.6], [0,255], m);
        g.drawRect(0, -2, unscaledWidth, unscaledHeight+4 );
        g.endFill();
    ]]>
</mx:Script>
</mx:Label>
------------ data2.xml ----------------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf8"?>
<TABLE>
   <EXAMPLE1>
      <difficulty> 0.5 </difficulty>
      <discrimination> 0.7 </discrimination>
      <col3> 3 </col3>
   </EXAMPLE1>
</TABLE>

Unable to display tree view; Error when parsing an XML document (Premature end of file.)

Hi folks,
I am using a cascaded mapping in my OM. I have a graphical mapping followed by the Java mapping. It is a flat file to IDOC mapping. Everything works fine in Dev but when I transport the same objects to QA, the Operation mapping though it doesn't fail in ESR testing tool, gives the following message and there is no output generated for the same payload which is successfully tested in DEV. Please advise on what could be the possible reasons.
Unable to display tree view; Error when parsing an XML document (Premature end of file.)

kalyan,
There seems to be an invalid xml payload which causes this error in ESR not generating the tree view. Please find the similar error screenshot and rectify the payload.
Mutti

Parseing an XML Document as a String

Hi all,
i am trying to parse an XML document to a parser. I get the file as a request parameter, which is filled in to at String variable.
But for some reason i get an SAXException, does anyone se the problem?
Thank you for your help...
Below is the code
import java.io.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.text.*;
import java.net.*;
import java.net.URL;
import java.sql.*;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.NamedNodeMap;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import org.xml.sax.SAXParseException;
import javax.xml.parsers.*;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource;
public class StartServlet extends HttpServlet
private boolean debug = true;
private final static String CONTENT = "content";
private final static String COOKIES = "cookies";
String resp = new String();
private static String NODE_TYPES[] = new String[] {
     "ELEMENT",
     "ATTRIBUTE",
     "TEXT",
     "CDATA_SECTION",
     "ENTITY_REFERENCE",
     "ENTITY",
     "PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION",
     "COMMENT",
     "DOCUMENT",
     "DOCUMENT_TYPE",
     "DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT",
     "NOTATION" };
public static void println(String s, int indent) {
     for(int i = 0 ; i < indent; i++) {
               System.out.println(" ");
     System.out.println(s);
public static void println(String s) {
     System.out.println(s);
public static void print(Node node){
     printImpl(node, 0);
public static void printImpl(Node node, int indent){
     if(node == null) {
          return;
     String nodeType = NODE_TYPES[node.getNodeType()];
     String nodeName = node.getNodeName();
     String nodeValue = node.getNodeValue();
     if(nodeValue != null) {
          nodeValue = nodeValue.trim();
     if(nodeType.equals("TEXT") && nodeValue.equals("")) {
          ; //Ignore emty node
     else {
          println(nodeType + " - " + nodeName + " - " + nodeValue, indent);
     NamedNodeMap attributes = node.getAttributes();
     if (attributes != null) {
          for(int i = 0; i < attributes.getLength(); i++) {
               printImpl(attributes.item(i), indent + 1);
     NodeList children = node.getChildNodes();
     if(children != null) {
          for(int i = 0; i < children.getLength(); i++){
               printImpl(children.item(i), indent + 1);
public static DocumentBuilder newBuilder(boolean validation)
                    throws ParserConfigurationException {
     DocumentBuilderFactory domFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
     domFactory.setValidating(validation);
     domFactory.setNamespaceAware(true);
     DocumentBuilder domBuilder = domFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
     //domBuilder.setErrorHandler(new PrintErrorHandler());
     return domBuilder;
public static Document newDocument()
                    throws ParserConfigurationException{
     DocumentBuilder domBuilder = newBuilder(false);
     Document document = domBuilder.newDocument();
     return document;
public static Document parse( String xml, boolean validation)
                    throws ParserConfigurationException, IOException, SAXException {
          DocumentBuilder domBuilder = newBuilder(validation);
          Document document = domBuilder.parse(xml);
          return document;
public void init() {
public void service( javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest req, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse res) {
          String[] cookies = null;
          try{
               Hashtable document = getDocument("http://.../first.xml", cookies);
               resp = (String) document.get(CONTENT);
               debug(resp);
               print(parse(resp, false));
          catch (SAXParseException e){
               System.out.println("Saxfejl");
               //System.exit(1);
          catch (Exception e){
               e.printStackTrace();
               System.exit(1);
public void debug(String msg) {
     if(debug) {
          System.out.println(msg);
public void performTask(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse response) {
     try
          // Insert user code from here.
     catch(Throwable theException)
          // uncomment the following line when unexpected exceptions
          // are occuring to aid in debugging the problem.
          //theException.printStackTrace();
public void doGet(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse response) throws javax.servlet.ServletException, java.io.IOException {
     performTask(request, response);
public void doPost(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse response) throws javax.servlet.ServletException, java.io.IOException {
     performTask(request, response);
private Hashtable getDocument(String urlCode, String[] oldCookies) {
     Hashtable document = new Hashtable();
     HttpURLConnection http = null;
     try {
          URL httpURL = new URL(urlCode);
          // If HTTP Protocol, then open connection using the Request method indicated
          URLConnection conn = httpURL.openConnection();
          http = (HttpURLConnection) conn;
          //http.setRequestMethod("GET");
          http.setDoInput(true);
          http.setDoOutput(true);
          http.setUseCaches(false);
          http.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
          if (oldCookies != null) {
               for (int j = 0; j < oldCookies.length; j++) {
                    String cookie = oldCookies[j];
                    http.setRequestProperty("Cookie", cookie);
          http.connect();
          http.getContent();
          StringBuffer tsb = new StringBuffer("");
          if (http.getResponseCode() == 200) {
               InputStream cis = http.getInputStream();
               byte[] a = new byte[1024];
               int n = cis.read(a);
               while (n >= 0) {
                    tsb.append(new String(a, 0, n));
                    n = cis.read(a);
               cis.close();
               document.put(CONTENT, tsb.toString());
          String[] cookies = null;
          if (cookies == null) {
               int headerFieldIndex = 0;
               String headerFieldValue = http.getHeaderField(headerFieldIndex);
               Vector cookieValues = new Vector();
               while (headerFieldValue != null) {
                    String headerFieldName = http.getHeaderFieldKey(headerFieldIndex);
                    if ((headerFieldName != null) && headerFieldName.toLowerCase().equals("set-cookie")) {
                         int index = headerFieldValue.indexOf(";");
                         if (index > -1) {
                              headerFieldValue = headerFieldValue.substring(0, index);
                         cookieValues.addElement(headerFieldValue);
                    headerFieldValue = http.getHeaderField(++headerFieldIndex);
               cookies = new String[cookieValues.size()];
               cookieValues.copyInto(cookies);
          document.put(COOKIES, cookies);
     catch (Exception e) {
          debug("url problem" + e);
     finally {
          if (http != null) {
               http.disconnect();
     return document;
}

Hi,
Use this code it will helpful to you.
resultXMLDocument=(XmlDocument)documentDoc;
StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
resultXMLDocument.write((Writer) sw);
xmlString=sw.toString();
thnaks,
suneel

Calling Bpel Process From a Jsp(Need a string output instead of XML object)

Hi
I am calling a BPEL process(Synchrononus) from a JSP page, Where Bpel process calls a java web service.The output from Bpel process is returned as an XML object. I need the output in a string format.Please let me know the steps to get the string output.
I also executed invokeCreditRatingService.jsp(from samples shipped with SOA Suite) that calls CreditRatingService bpel, but i was getting the following output where the rating value is printed as an XML object.
Output:-
BPELProcess CreditRatingService executed!
Credit Rating is oracle.xml.parser.v2.XMLElement@9511c8
Please let me know, what changes i need to make to get the string output.I followed all the steps given in "orabpel-Tutorial7-InvokingBPELProcesses.PDF" to execute credit rating jsp.
We are using SOA Suite 10.1.3.1.0 version.Do I need to make any changes to the code, to make it work with this version.
Thanks
Vandana.

The call payload.get("payload") returns, as you have observed, an XMLElement. You can simply convert the XMLElement into an XML string by using a DOMSerializer implementation. The following code is very useful for this purpose:
http://javafaq.nu/java-example-code-432.html
Best,
Manfred

Can someone help me with a problem of parsing an XML file?

Hello,
I'm having some problems parsing an xml file. I get a SAXNotSupportedException when setting a property value.
Here is the piece of code where I have the problem:
SAXParserFactory spf = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
spf.setNamespaceAware(true);
SAXParser saxParser = spf.newSAXParser();
XMLReader xmlReader = saxParser.getXMLReader();
DefaultHandler defHandler = new DefaultHandler();
xmlReader.setProperty("http://xml.org/sax/properties/lexical-handler", defHandler);
and the log is:
Problem with the parser org.xml.sax.SAXNotSupportedException: PAR012 For propertyID "http://xml.org/sax/properties/lexical-handler", the value "org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler@4ff4f74a" cannot be cast to LexicalHandler.
http://xml.org/sax/properties/lexical-handler org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler@4ff4f74a LexicalHandler
I've been working on this problem but I can't find the error.
Does anyone have an idea of what to do to solve it?
Thanx in advance,
M@G

before deciding which XML technology to use, you should see if your application fit in the category below:
use SAX:
1. The XML file is rather large (30 or 40+ MB)
2. I don't need the xml document in memory. I will parse the document and store the data in my own object.
use DOM or JDOM
1. The XML file is relatively small (less than 30 MB) or I can increase the runtime memory for larger xml file.
2. I will need to walk up and down the xml document tree severals time.
3. My application is in Java and it's not going to be rewritten in C++, etc (use JDOM)
NOTE:
JDOM is rather easier to use (for Java developer), but it's not an www.org.com standardlized xml parser.
personally, i like JDOM for traversing the DOM.

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I want address an xml object with .(@ attributeNameHere == "textToSearchForHere") and have it return the node it’s associated with.
This is the text from the adobe help site and it’s similar to my actual code. I’m querying this xml object: staticVar.employee.(@id=="347"). FlashBuilder 4.7 is returning an error “No such variable: @id”. when I look in debugger.
This example is found in Adobe's help site: Adobe Flash Platform * Traversing XML structures
The help site says
The following expressions are all valid:
x.employee.(lastName == "McGee")—This is the secondemployeenode.
x.employee.(lastName == "McGee").firstName—This is thefirstNameproperty of the secondemployeenode.
x.employee.(lastName == "McGee").@id—This is the value of theidattribute of the secondemployeenode.
x.employee.(@id == 347)—The firstemployeenode.
public var staticVar:XML =
<employeeList>
      <employee id="347">
           <lastName>Zmed</lastName>
           <firstName>Sue</firstName>
           <position>Data analyst</position>
      </employee>
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           <lastName>McGee</lastName>
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      </employee>
</employeeList>;
I’m expecting this: staticVar.employee.(@id=="347") will return the following node:
<employee nu="347">
<lastName>Zmed</lastName>
<firstName>Sue</firstName>
<position>Data analyst</position>
</employee>
If this is the wrong, then what is the correct way to access the xml node based on an attribute? How can i get that node 347 in this example to be found and returned? I've opened a ticket with the adobe help team and we're on the 8th day and they have not been helpful at all.

If you are using e4x as the result format for your service
you can do the following
//a XMLList of all day information
var result:Object = event.result.day;
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var month0:XMLList = result.(@month == 0);
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var day28Month0:XMLList = month0.(@day == 28);
//this also can be done
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Using this technique you should be able to gather info about
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HTH

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