Loading xml and parsing

Is there a way to load an xml file and parse the tags as we do in javascripts in java?
i want to write a generic xml parser.
what all should i know before starting.
i choose java as my development language.

Is there a way to load an xml file and parse the tags
as we do in javascripts in java?Yes?
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i want to write a generic xml parser.There is one built into Java or you can use JDOM or Dom4J.
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what all should i know before starting.Difficult to say without knowing what you are doing but the Java tutorial is a good starting point.
i choose java as my development language.

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<![CDATA[
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]]>
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application
xmlns:mx="
http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
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layout="absolute"
horizontalScrollPolicy="off"
backgroundAlpha="0"
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>
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import mx.controls.Image;
import flash.display.*;
import flash.events.IOErrorEvent;
import flash.net.URLLoader;
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public function init():void
var loaderSkin:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
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\\put your code here
]]>
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Eastern European characters in XML and parsing

Hi all,
I have a problem with XML parsing within Java code with special Eastern European characters.
Whenever there is EE character within tags it reports:
WARNING (12847): CORE3283: stderr: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The element type "CodeMeaning" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "</CodeMeaning>".
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Here is a sample of my XML file and I want to be able to put into a grid the Server Name, User ID, Password, and then list under all Databases associated with that server.
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<Database>CUSTOMER</Database>
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<Database>ORDERS</Database>
<Database>RETURNS</Database>
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controls.
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Private Master As New BindingSource
Private Details As New BindingSource
Screenshot using two DataGridView controls.
I would suggest the above as other methods to place all columns into a DataGridView is problematic.
Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help and unmark them if they provide no help, this will help others who are looking for solutions to the same or similar problem. Contact via my webpage under my profile
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I think you might be right about permissions/settings on the server for php. Unfortunately I'm not allowed to adjust them.
So I wrote my own script - this time I used file path instead of http address of the XML file. It works fine in my case.
Here it is:
XML file on domain2.com:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<gallery>
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var imagesXML:XML;
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<?php
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?>
Regards
PS: for those who read the above discussion: the first and the second script work but you must test which one is better in your situation. The first script will also work between two domains on different servers. No cross domain policy file needed.

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Hi all-
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thanks in advance

I have one more question. What you gave me worked like a charm btw. Thanks a lot. Onto the question:
I'd like to use the same XML to also power a drop down menu, here's a snippet of the XML/XHTML below. I can't seem to get it to work on the drop down, the image map works great.
XML snippet:
<locations>
<location>
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     <coords>192,496,193,497,194,497,195,497,196,497,197,497,199,497,201,497,201,498,202,498,2 01,498,201,499,202,499,203,500,204,500,204,501,205,502,206,502,206,503,207,503,207,504,207 ,506,207,510,207,511,207,512,207,514,207,518,207,521,207,522,207,524,207,525,207,526,207,5 27,207,528,207,529,207,530,207,531,207,532,207,533,207,535,207,537,207,538,207,539,207,540 ,207,541,207,542,207,543,207,545,207,547,207,548,207,549,207,550,206,552,206,554,206,555,2 06,556,206,558,206,559,206,560,206,562,206,563,206,564,206,565,206,566,206,567,206,568,206 ,569,206,570,206,571,205,571,205,572,204,572,204,573,203,573,203,574,203,573,202,573,201,5 73,201,572,200,572,200,571,200,570,199,570,199,569,199,568,199,567,198,566,197,566,197,565 ,196,565,196,564,195,564,194,564,194,563,193,563,192,563,192,562,191,562,190,562,189,562,1 88,562,187,562,186,562,186,561,187,561,186,561,185,561,184,561,183,561,182,561,182,560,181 ,560,180,560,179,559,178,558,177,557,176,557,176,556,175,556,174,556,174,555,173,555,172,5 55,171,556,169,556,168,556,168,557,167,557,166,557,165,557,164,557,164,558,163,558,162,558 ,161,558,160,559,159,559,159,560,158,560,158,561,158,562,158,563,157,563,157,564,157,565,1 57,566,156,567,155,567,155,568,154,568,153,568,153,567,152,567,151,567,150,566,149,566,149 ,565,149,564,149,563,149,562,149,561,149,560,149,559,149,558,149,557,149,555,150,555,150,5 54,150,553,150,552,150,551,150,549,150,548,150,547,150,546,150,545,150,544,151,543,151,541 ,151,540,151,538,151,537,151,536,151,534,151,532,152,531,152,530,152,529,152,528,152,527,1 52,526,152,525,152,523,152,522,152,521,152,520,152,519,153,519,153,518,153,517,153,516,153 ,515,153,514,153,513,153,512,153,510,153,508,153,507,154,506,154,505,154,504,154,503,154,5 02,155,502,156,502,159,502,160,502,161,502,162,502,163,502,164,502,165,502,165,501,166,501 ,167,501,168,501,169,501,170,501,170,500,171,500,172,500,173,500,174,500,175,500,175,499,1 76,499,177,499,178,499,179,499,180,499,180,498,182,498,184,498,188,497,189,497,190,497,191 ,497</coords>
     <county>Adams County</county>
</location>
<location>
     <filepath>P1009.pdf</filepath>
     <coords>132,183,132,184,132,185,132,186,132,187,132,188,132,189,132,190,132,192,132,194,1 31,195,131,196,131,197,131,199,131,201,131,202,131,203,131,204,131,206,131,207,131,208,131 ,209,131,210,131,211,131,212,131,213,131,214,131,216,131,217,131,218,131,219,131,220,131,2 21,131,223,131,224,131,225,131,226,131,227,131,228,131,229,130,229,129,229,126,229,125,229 ,124,229,123,229,122,229,119,229,118,229,117,229,116,229,114,229,113,229,112,229,111,229,1 10,229,109,229,108,229,107,229,106,229,105,229,104,229,102,229,102,227,102,226,100,226,99, 226,98,226,97,226,96,226,95,226,92,226,90,226,89,226,87,226,87,225,87,224,87,222,87,221,85 ,221,84,221,83,221,82,221,81,221,80,221,78,221,77,221,76,221,75,221,72,221,71,221,69,221,6 8,221,65,221,65,220,65,219,65,218,65,217,65,216,65,215,65,214,65,212,65,211,65,210,65,209, 65,207,65,206,65,205,65,204,65,203,65,201,65,200,65,199,66,199,67,199,68,199,70,199,71,199 ,72,199,73,199,73,197,73,196,73,195,73,194,73,193,73,192,74,192,75,192,76,192,77,192,79,19 2,80,192,81,192,82,192,83,192,84,192,85,192,86,192,87,192,88,192,90,192,91,192,92,192,95,1 92,99,192,100,192,101,192,102,192,102,191,102,190,102,188,102,187,102,186,102,185,105,185, 106,185,107,185,108,185,109,185,110,185,111,185,113,185,114,185,115,185,116,185,117,185,11 7,184,117,183,117,182,118,182,119,182,120,182,121,182,122,182,123,182,124,182,125,182,126, 182,127,182,128,182,129,183</coords>
     <county>Allen County</county>
</location>
</locations>
Here's my XHTML:
<div spry:region="ds1">
     <p>Click on a county, or select from the following:
          <select onchange="jumpMenu(this)" name="menu1">
          <option spry:repeat="ds1" value="../files/research/{filepath}">{county}</option>
          </select>
     </p>
        </div>
<div spry:region="ds1"> <img src="../images/OhioCountyMap.gif" usemap="#Map">
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Background:
I am tasked with building a vertical news scroller that reads
from an xml file and loops indefinitely.
Problem 1:
I have figured out how to scroll static text and I am now
working on loading the xml which I also have done. The problem I am
having with loading the xml is that if the movie loops, it is
loading the XML each instance of the loop. How can I load the XML
only on the initial load and still loop the movie?
Problem 2:
When working with static text, scrolling is simply a matter
of doing a motion tween. When working with XML, the data will not
be a fixed length, so doing a motion tween will have 2 problems.
First, the original text object will have a fixed height which will
either have blank space when the XML returns less than enough to
fill it, or will have hidden text when the XML returns more that it
can hold. Can I dynamically adjust the height of a text object to
fit the text that has been put into it? Once I figure out how to
dynamically change the height we have the second problem. If the
tween was built to scroll 10 records over 200 frames and the XML
now returns 100 records, the scroll will be 10 times too fast. Can
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over?

1. You can keep the XML in a variable and use an if/else to
determine if the XML is loaded.
var myXML:XML
// later
if(!myXML){
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(autoSize and multiline text filed properties) - it will adjust
text height depending on the content - width will not be affected.
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check it out at
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I have a flash application that makes a HTTP call every 120
seconds to retrieve a xml file. This file is being generated with
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I'm using the standard Flash XML object. The HTTP request is
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code to make the retrieval:
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xmlData = new XML();
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known bug in the parsing logic.
Intermittently and unpredictably, IE will display the
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unresponive. Do you want to abort the script?"
I originally leaned toward an infinite loop causing this
problem. The timeline jumps back and forth between two frames,
checking in the latter frame if the xml has been loaded and parsed
before allowing execution to move to the next frame. I hardcoded
the loop check to always be false, but this did not produce the
message above (although it pegged my CPU).
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above is by making a huge (50 MB) xml file. This consistently
produces the message. But I don't realistically see how our xml
file could ever be over 1 MB.
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as infinite recursion on a badly formed XML file. Second, does
anyone know of a solid xml SAX parsing actionscript utility where
you can assign callbacks to XML nodes? If the problem is in the
parsing, we may have to replace our homegrown solution with
something more robust and proven.

Is it a recursive parsing function? I'm not sure about this,
but I think this message pops up when there are more than 256
iterations in a loop (I've read something about this 256 limit,
that will end while loops if they exceed this, but with another
error message... but again, I'm not totally sure about that).
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fires. Sometimes it appears for really 'small' loops when you're
using the debugger (e.g. a for loop with 100 iterations), so maybe
it is connected to the time a loop is running. You could place some
trace statements in the xmlTraverse method, to see where the
function was when the message occurs, or take the time the function
needs and check if this might be related to the error.
That's all I can come up with, guess there are people here
with more insight to this...
cheers,
blemmo

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While executing the sample procedure for XML/PLSQL Parser it gives the error:
ERROR at line 1:
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ORA-06512: at "SCOTT.XMLPARSERCOVER", line 0
ORA-06512: at "SCOTT.XMLPARSER", line 57
ORA-06512: at "SCOTT.DOMSAMPLE", line 57
ORA-06512: at line 1
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Steven Muench ([email protected]):
SELECT TEXT FROM USER_ERRORS
WHERE NAME = DBMS_JAVA.SHORTNAME('oracle/xml/parser/plsql/XMLParserCover')
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========================
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I have exactly the same problem and the above SQL does not return any rows.
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2-3 MB each. I'd like for the progress bar to continue showing
until the files are downloaded and parsed and only after the files
are downloaded and parsed, would the components start to be
rendered since some of them will require the files to determine
their look and feel.
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Most postings on this forum points to the blog-entry title "Leveraging XDB" found here (http://blogs.oracle.com/warehousebuilder/2007/09/leveraging_xdb.html).
This blog also references the zip-file owb_xml_etl_utils.zip, which seems to have disappeared from it's original location and can now be found on sourceforge.
Anyway, the solution described is for OWB 10g, and when trying to import experts from the zip-file etc. we end up not being able to run the "Create ETL from XSD" expert, as the 11gR2 client is different from the 10g and does not have the Experts menu et.al.
Also, this solution was published over 3 years ago, and it seems rather strange that importing XML-formatted data should still be so cumbersome in the newer warehouse builder releases.
The OWB 11gR2 documentation is very sparse (or rather - quite empty) on how to load XML data, all it has is a few lines on "XML Transformations", giving no clue as to how one goes about loading data.
Is this really the state of things? Or are we missing some vital information here?
We'd have thought that with 11g-releases, loading XML-data would be rather simple, quick and painless?
Is there somewhere besides the blog mentioned above where we can find simple and to the point guidelines for OWB 11gR2 on how to load XML-formatted data into Oracle tables?
Regards,
-Haakon-

Yes it is possible to use SQL*Loader to parse and load XML, but that is not what it was designed for and so is not recommended. You also don't need to register a schema, just to load/store/parse XML in the DB either.
So where does that leave you?
Some options
{thread:id=410714} (see page 2)
{thread:id=1090681}
{thread:id=1070213}
Those talk some about storage options and reading in XML from disk and parsing XML. They should also give you options to consider. Without knowing more about your requirements for the effort, it is difficult to give specific advice. Maybe your 7-8 tables don't exist and so using Object Relational Storage for the XML would be the best solution as you can query/update tables that Oracle creates based off the schema associated to the XML. Maybe an External Table definition works better for reading the XML into the system because this process will happen just once. Maybe using WebDAV makes more sense for loading XML to be parsed (I don't have much experience with this, just know it is possible from what I've read on the forums). Also, your version makes a difference as you have different options available depending upon the version of Oracle.
Hope all that helps as a starter.
Edited by: A_Non on Jul 8, 2010 4:31 PM
A great example, see the answers by mdrake in {thread:id=1096784}

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I have a XML files that are created on a timed basis....they describe a photo and point to a dir where the photo is stored...like...
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