JDK 1.6 - XML, Xerces and DOMParser - Help?

Question

Please bear with me while I try to explain this thoroughly....
I perviously wrote a JSP page using the following:
Tomcat 5.5.x
JDK 1.5x
imports: org.w3c.dom.*,
org.apache.xerces.parsers.*,
org.xml.sax.*
I have since upgraded to:
Tomcat 6.0.x
JDK 1.6x
My JSP will no longer compile as the Xerces.jar file is not in my path.
The specific error is:
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: javax.servlet.ServletException: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/xerces/parsers/DOMParser
My use of the DOM (with xerces) is like this:
org.w3c.dom.Document xmlparams=null;
DOMParser parser=new DOMParser();
InputSource is=new InputSource(new StringReader("myParameters.xml"));
parser.parse(is);
xmlparams=parser.getDocument();Then:
Node fpref=xmlparams.getElementsByTagName("FormatPreference").item(0).getFirstChild();etc., etc.
If I no longer want to use Xerces, what standard distribution libraries can I use instead ?
Can you provide/link to a few examples?
Or should I just distribute xerces.jar with my app?
I'm hoping I don't have to rewrite my code for a different xml parser....
Edited by: whoit on Jul 21, 2008 12:22 PM

Answer 1

Never mind - I found the answer.
I can eliminate xerces.jar by replacing the following code:
import org.apache.xerces.parsers.*;
org.w3c.dom.Document xmlDoc;
DOMParser parser=new DOMParser();
parser.parse(new File(xFileName));
xmlDoc=parser.getDocument();with this:
import javax.xml.parsers.*;
org.w3c.dom.Document xmlDoc;
DocumentBuilder parser= DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder();
xmlDoc=parser.parse(new File(xFileName));