Issue with parsing an xml document and namespaces

I am having an issue when parsing an xml document that includes a namespace.
Here is my xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<StatusFile xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" TxCnt="247" TxTotal="5756845.31" SourceId="3" xmlns="http://www.test.com/cig/payments/optimizer/status/2004/10/">
<Tx PmtId="350031" Amt="16739" TxSts="09" CustSts="04" ChkNum="10605770" />
<Tx PmtId="350990" Amt="31698.66" TxSts="09" CustSts="04" ChkNum="10605821" />
<Tx PmtId="354992" Amt="201320.08" TxSts="09" CustSts="04" />
<Tx PmtId="349277" Amt="6675.17" TxSts="09" CustSts="04" ChkNum="10605822" />
<Tx PmtId="354979" Amt="66949.75" TxSts="09" CustSts="04" ChkNum="10605823" />
<Tx PmtId="349341" Amt="63258.49" TxSts="09" CustSts="04" ChkNum="10605824" />
<Tx PmtId="350025" Amt="5866.04" TxSts="09" CustSts="04" ChkNum="10605830" />
<Tx PmtId="350024" Amt="15671.8" TxSts="09" CustSts="04" ChkNum="10605831" />
<Tx PmtId="346822" Amt="9880.64" TxSts="09" CustSts="04" />
<Tx PmtId="350023" Amt="1360" TxSts="09" CustSts="04" />
<Tx PmtId="349802" Amt="131267" TxSts="09" CustSts="04" ChkNum="10605832" />
<Tx PmtId="343573" Amt="14532.76" TxSts="09" CustSts="04" ChkNum="10605833" />
<Tx PmtId="352675" Amt="4436" TxSts="09" CustSts="04" />
<Tx PmtId="350022" Amt="1260" TxSts="09" CustSts="04" ChkNum="10605834" />
<Tx PmtId="349714" Amt="80778" TxSts="09" CustSts="04" ChkNum="10605835" />
<Tx PmtId="352676" Amt="10136" TxSts="09" CustSts="04" ChkNum="10605836" />
<Tx PmtId="352679" Amt="25511.69" TxSts="09" CustSts="04" ChkNum="10605837" />
<Tx PmtId="346502" Amt="12842.69" TxSts="10" CustSts="05" />
<Tx PmtId="346503" Amt="4232.61" TxSts="09" CustSts="04" ChkNum="10605838" />
</StatusFile>
Here is my current code base:
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE ParseXML(xml VARCHAR2) IS
myParser xmlparser.parser := xmlparser.newparser;
myDoc xmldom.DOMNode;
myNodes xmldom.DOMNodeList;
myElement xmldom.DOMElement;
trec NDE_CIG_STATUS_TRANSACTIONS%ROWTYPE;
BEGIN
xmlparser.parseBuffer(myParser,xml);
myDoc := xmldom.makeNode(xmlparser.getDocument(myParser));
myNodes := xslprocessor.selectNodes(myDoc,'//Tx');
FOR i IN 0..xmldom.getLength(myNodes)-1 LOOP
myElement := xmldom.makeElement(xmldom.item(buyOrders,i));
trec.pmt_id := xmldom.getAttribute(curBuy,'PmtId');
INSERT INTO NDE_CIG_STATUS_TRANSACTIONS(PMT_ID) VALUES (trec.pmt_id);
END LOOP;
COMMIT;
END ParseXML;
If I remove the namespace, everything works just fine. The issue is that I cannot remove the namespace.
Anyone have any suggestions on how I can get the xslprocessor.selectNodes to recognize my namespace?
Thanks,
Mark Moran

Everyone,
Well after lots of hours spent reading web pages and blogs, etc... I was able to re-write my procedure and get it to work with different calls.
Here is my updated code.
PROCEDURE PARSE_STATUS_XML(P_FILE_NAME IN VARCHAR2, P_XML_FILE IN CLOB) IS
V_PARSER XMLPARSER.PARSER := XMLPARSER.NEWPARSER;
V_DOCUMENT XMLDOM.DOMDOCUMENT;
V_NODES XMLDOM.DOMNODELIST;
V_ELEMENT XMLDOM.DOMELEMENT;
V_TBL_RECORD NDE_CIG_STATUS_TRANSACTIONS%ROWTYPE;
BEGIN
XMLPARSER.PARSECLOB(V_PARSER, P_XML_FILE);
V_DOCUMENT := XMLPARSER.GETDOCUMENT(V_PARSER);
V_ELEMENT := XMLDOM.GETDOCUMENTELEMENT(V_DOCUMENT);
V_NODES := XMLDOM.GETELEMENTSBYTAGNAME(V_ELEMENT,'Tx','http://www.test.com/cig/payments/optimizer/status/2004/10/');
FOR I IN 0..XMLDOM.GETLENGTH(V_NODES)-1 LOOP
V_ELEMENT := XMLDOM.MAKEELEMENT(XMLDOM.ITEM(V_NODES,I));
V_TBL_RECORD.PMT_ID := XMLDOM.GETATTRIBUTE(V_ELEMENT,'PmtId');
V_TBL_RECORD.PMT_AMT := XMLDOM.GETATTRIBUTE(V_ELEMENT,'Amt');
V_TBL_RECORD.E_STATUS_CODE := XMLDOM.GETATTRIBUTE(V_ELEMENT,'TxSts');
V_TBL_RECORD.E_REASON_CODE := XMLDOM.GETATTRIBUTE(V_ELEMENT,'StsRsn');
V_TBL_RECORD.E_CUSTOMER_STATUS_CODE := XMLDOM.GETATTRIBUTE(V_ELEMENT,'CustSts');
V_TBL_RECORD.UPS_TRACKING_NBR := XMLDOM.GETATTRIBUTE(V_ELEMENT,'UpsTrcNum');
V_TBL_RECORD.FED_REFERENCE_NBR := XMLDOM.GETATTRIBUTE(V_ELEMENT,'FedRefNum');
V_TBL_RECORD.FIDB_TRACKING_NBR := XMLDOM.GETATTRIBUTE(V_ELEMENT,'FIDbtTrcNum');
V_TBL_RECORD.CHECK_NBR := XMLDOM.GETATTRIBUTE(V_ELEMENT,'ChkNum');
INSERT INTO NDE_CIG_STATUS_TRANSACTIONS(
CREATE_DATE,
XML_FILE_NAME,
PMT_ID,
PMT_AMT,
E_STATUS_CODE,
E_REASON_CODE,
E_CUSTOMER_STATUS_CODE,
UPS_TRACKING_NBR,
FED_REFERENCE_NBR,
FIDB_TRACKING_NBR,
CHECK_NBR
     VALUES (
SYSDATE,
P_FILE_NAME,
V_TBL_RECORD.PMT_ID,
V_TBL_RECORD.PMT_AMT,
V_TBL_RECORD.E_STATUS_CODE,
V_TBL_RECORD.E_REASON_CODE,
V_TBL_RECORD.E_CUSTOMER_STATUS_CODE,
V_TBL_RECORD.UPS_TRACKING_NBR,
V_TBL_RECORD.FED_REFERENCE_NBR,
V_TBL_RECORD.FIDB_TRACKING_NBR,
V_TBL_RECORD.CHECK_NBR
END LOOP;
COMMIT;
EXCEPTION
WHEN OTHERS THEN
     RAISE;
END PARSE_STATUS_XML;
Mark

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____________<Product_number>no1</Product_number>
____________<Ticked_by_default>Y</Ticked_by_default>
________</Document>
________<Document>
____________<Name>Example2</Name>
____________<Product_number>no1</Product_number>
____________<Ticked_by_default>Y</Ticked_by_default>
________</Document>
________<Document>
____________<Name>Example3</Name>
____________<Product_number>no1</Product_number>
____________<Ticked_by_default>Y</Ticked_by_default>
________</Document>
____</Group>
____<Group>
________<Type>EX2</Type>
________<ProductVersionAllowed>N</ProductVersionAllowed>
________<Preprocess>precmd.csh</Preprocess>
________<Postprocess>echo Finished</Postprocess>
________<Document>
____________<Name>Example4</Name>
____________<Product_number>no2</Product_number>
____________<Ticked_by_default>Y</Ticked_by_default>
________</Document>
________<Document>
____________<Name>Example5</Name>
____________<Product_number>no2</Product_number>
____________<Ticked_by_default>Y</Ticked_by_default>
________</Document>
____</Group>
</ThisExample>

Thnx :O)
Now it worx!
Just one more thing. Can I get the number of elements there is in a tag? I.e. how many "Document"'s there are in 1 "Group"? I need this because I have too loop through a "Group" and print the name of every "Document".
At the moment I'm doing it like below, but that is not a nice solution, and it realy does not work that well:
Jimmy
int i = 1;
do
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if (node.getFirstChild().getNodeValue() != null)
type = node.getFirstChild().getNodeValue();
PostToolDocGroupeComboBox.addItem(type);
i++;
} while (node.getFirstChild().getNodeValue() != null);

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kalyan,
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Thanks

Thanks,
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I am trying to use jaxb 2.0 to parse a buffer which contains multiple xml documents. However, it seems that it is meant to only parse a single document at a time and throws an exception when it gets to the 2nd document.
Is there a way I can tell jaxb to only parse the first complete document and not fetch the next one out of the buffer? Or what is the most efficient way to separate the buffer into two documents without parsing it manually. If I have to search the buffer for the next document root and then split the buffer, it seems like that defeats the purpose of using jaxb as the parser.
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org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Illegal character at end of document, <.]
     at javax.xml.bind.helpers.AbstractUnmarshallerImpl.createUnmarshalException(AbstractUnmarshallerImpl.java:315)
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     at javax.xml.bind.helpers.AbstractUnmarshallerImpl.unmarshal(AbstractUnmarshallerImpl.java:184)
Thank you for your help

It's just like any other XML parser, it's only designed to parse one XML document. If you have something that concatenates two XML documents together (that's what your "buffer" sounds like), then stop doing that.

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Hi all,
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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;
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private boolean debug = true;
private final static String CONTENT = "content";
private final static String COOKIES = "cookies";
String resp = new String();
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     "TEXT",
     "CDATA_SECTION",
     "ENTITY_REFERENCE",
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     "COMMENT",
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     "DOCUMENT_TYPE",
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     "NOTATION" };
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               System.out.println(" ");
     System.out.println(s);
public static void println(String s) {
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public static void printImpl(Node node, int indent){
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          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 {
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     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")) {
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                         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

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Everything works perfectly previously on 10.8.4 and 10.8.5. I did not test on 10.9.0 as I went straight to 10.9.1. Anyone else having this problem? Any thoughts on resolution?

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Hi. I work in an enterprise environment that is currently migrating to 64-bit Windows 7. The only version of Acrobat we have approved for Windows 7 is 10.1.2. We're seeing an issue with this version that causes the preview handler to not work. The preview panel in Explorer is just white and will eventually give the error "Preview handler surrogate host has stopped working." I've tried to fix listed on http://www.pretentiousname.com/adobe_pdf_x64_fix/index.html but that registry key is already correct. Our current work around for these users to just install Reader X1 and make it the default PDF handler, but I would like to find a better solution. Is there a known issue with Acrobat 10.1.2 and 64-bit operating systems? Or is there a way to change just the default preview handler?

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