Parsing XML with incomplete tags

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user490857

Hello,
How about the following?
Change your XML document to:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<response>
<title> this is book on &lt;tags&gt; Order </title>
</response>
Running the following code:
String xmlstring = "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?><response><title> this is book on &lt;tags&gt; Order </title></response>";
DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder db = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
InputSource inStream = new InputSource();
inStream.setCharacterStream(new StringReader(xmlstring));
Document doc1 = db.parse(inStream);
System.out.println(doc1.getDocumentElement().getFirstChild().getFirstChild().getNodeValue());
Will produce the following result:
this is book on <tags> Order
-Blaise
Message was edited by:
Blaise Doughan

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27      </aa:USER_INFO>
28    </aa:REC>
29 </RECSET>') as xml from dual)
30 -- END OF TEST DATA
31 select x.country, x.point, y.user_id, y.target, y.state, y.task
32 from t
33      ,XMLTABLE(XMLNAMESPACES('http://www.w3.org' as "aa"),
34                '/RECSET/aa:REC'
35                PASSING t.xml
36                COLUMNS country NUMBER PATH '/aa:REC/aa:COUNTRY'
37                       ,point   NUMBER PATH '/aa:REC/aa:POINT'
38                       ,user_info XMLTYPE PATH '/aa:REC/*'
39               ) x
40      ,XMLTABLE(XMLNAMESPACES('http://www.w3.org' as "aa"),
41                '/aa:USER_INFO'
42                PASSING x.user_info
43                COLUMNS user_id NUMBER PATH '/aa:USER_INFO/aa:USER_ID'
44                       ,target NUMBER PATH '/aa:USER_INFO/aa:TARGET'
45                       ,state   NUMBER PATH '/aa:USER_INFO/aa:STATE'
46                       ,task    NUMBER PATH '/aa:USER_INFO/aa:TASK'
47*              ) y
SQL> /
   COUNTRY      POINT    USER_ID     TARGET      STATE       TASK
         1       1800          1         28          6         12
         1       1800          5         19          1         90
         2       2400          3         14          7          5p.s. XML questions are better suited in the XML DB forum:
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Parsing XML with Namespace

Hi,
Can somebody help me with the following:-
I have an XMLType in pl/sql as follows:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<rapdrpProcessCIN:GetCINRes xmlns:rapdrpProcessCIN="http://rapdrp.com/processcin/transactional/model/1.0/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://rapdrp.com/processcin/transactional/model/1.0/"
xmlns:N1="http://rapdrp.com/common/bodcomponents/transactional/model/1.0/"
xmlns:N2="http://rapdrp.com/gis/cin/business/model/1.0/">
<rapdrpProcessCIN:ApplicationArea>
<N1:Sender>
<N1:Id>PRT01</N1:Id>
</N1:Sender>
<N1:Receiver>
<N1:CompanyName>MGVCL</N1:CompanyName>
<N1:CompanyId>string</N1:CompanyId>
</N1:Receiver>
<N1:Reference>
<N1:BODCreationDateTime>1697-02-01T00:00:00Z</N1:BODCreationDateTime>
<N1:BusinessProcessId>BP014</N1:BusinessProcessId>
<N1:MessageId>string</N1:MessageId>
<N1:TransactionId>string</N1:TransactionId>
<N1:Username>string</N1:Username>
<N1:Token>string</N1:Token>
</N1:Reference>
</rapdrpProcessCIN:ApplicationArea>
<rapdrpProcessCIN:DataArea>
<rapdrpProcessCIN:CIN>
<N2:CIN>string</N2:CIN>
</rapdrpProcessCIN:CIN>
<rapdrpProcessCIN:ConsumerNumber>string</rapdrpProcessCIN:ConsumerNumber>
<rapdrpProcessCIN:SRNumber>string</rapdrpProcessCIN:SRNumber>
</rapdrpProcessCIN:DataArea>
</rapdrpProcessCIN:GetCINRes>Note the xmlns attribute of the <message> tag is "" which is unusual, but not something I can't modify.
I wish to extract the text string of the BusinessProcessId tag. I have attempted the following:
DECLARE
v_result varchar2(32765);
v_xml XMLType;
BEGIN
v_xml := XMLType('....above XML....');
v_result := xmltype.extract(v_xml, '/rapdrpProcessCIN:GetCINRes/rapdrpProcessCIN:ApplicationArea/Reference/BusinessProcessId/text()','xmlns:rapdrpProcessCIN="http://rapdrp.com/processcin/transactional/model/1.0/"').getStringVal();
dbms_output.put_line('v_result:'||v_result);
END;
.... and I'm receiving the following result:
ORA-30625: method dispatch on NULL SELF argument is disallowed
ORA-06512: at line 6
What am I doing wrong?
Any help appreciated.
Regards,
Himani

Hello,
Can u please help me in resolving this issue.
I need to parse an XML in which some tags does not contain data or there is no such tag present in an XML.
Whenever i parse such a XML i receive error-ORA-30625: method dispatch on NULL SELF Argument is disallowed.
As per my requirement - I may get values in all tags at one time and next time i may receive values of some fields only.
I have tried this:
DECLARE
v_result varchar2(32765);
v_xml XMLType;
BEGIN
v_xml := XMLType('<PurchaseOrder xmlns="http://rapdrp.com/processcin/transactional/model/1.0/">
<Reference>SBELL-2002100912333601PDT</Reference>
<Actions>
<Action>
<User>SVOLLMAN</User>
</Action>
</Actions>
<Reject/>
<Requestor>Sarah J. Bell</Requestor>
<User>SBELL</User>
<CostCenter>S30</CostCenter>
<ShippingInstructions>
<name></name>
<address>400 Oracle Parkway
Redwood Shores
CA
94065
USA</address>
<telephone>650 506 7400</telephone>
</ShippingInstructions>
<SpecialInstructions>Air Mail</SpecialInstructions>
<LineItems>
<LineItem ItemNumber="1">
<Description>A Night to Remember</Description>
<Part Id="715515009058" UnitPrice="39.95" Quantity="2"/>
</LineItem>
<LineItem ItemNumber="2">
<Description>The Unbearable Lightness Of Being</Description>
<Part Id="37429140222" UnitPrice="29.95" Quantity="2"/>
</LineItem>
<LineItem ItemNumber="3">
<Description>Sisters</Description>
<Part Id="715515011020" UnitPrice="29.95" Quantity="4"/>
</LineItem>
</LineItems>
</PurchaseOrder>');
v_result := xmltype.extract(v_xml,'/PurchaseOrder/ShippingInstructions/name/text()','xmlns="http://rapdrp.com/processcin/transactional/model/1.0/"').getStringVal();
dbms_output.put_line('v_result:'||v_result);
END;
In this the value in <name></name> tag is NULL.
Please let me know if i can parse this XML.
Regards,
Himani

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I have been doing a lot of reading up on the APIs of XMLPull and KXML2.
I seem to be facing a problem which can't be solved just by reading but rather the expertise of the more experienced programmers dealing with XML parsing in J2ME.
I know how long it takes to process an entire XML document, I just would like to parse certain parts of the document. For e.g. instead of reading the whole document, say I just want to read the first 7 items and subsequently, the next 7 items when the user clicks on the next page?
In other words, I wish to incorporate paging. Is it possible? Or if you have an alternative solution which will not make a user wait too long, please share it!
Can anyone help me?

I don't think that is possible. We can't make the XML
any smaller because it contains all the information I
want to display. Just that I want to display it in
pages/sections so as to reduce the load.
So I was thinking of whether it is possible to read
the first 5 <title> tags and next 5 for every page
... etcimagine that you have 20 pages so the user will have to download a 20 x 5 items xml file?
if the user stops the navigation at page 4, he will download 16 pages for nothing so that's
why i told you to separate the results...
an xml file for each page and not a huge for all !

Parsing XML with namespaces SOLVED

I'm working on a SOAP-based self-service UCCX/IPIVR script where the caller inputs an account number and I call a SOAP service and get an XML result. That part works great. I used this excellent article https://supportforums.cisco.com/document/97736/uccx-8x-really-simple-soap-client-no-custom-jar to accomplish that. With slight modification to work with the particular server/service, it works flawlessly.
My return XML file has namespaces in it with multiple sections. See attached text file with the return results.I get the same result from the SOAP call from UCCX and also from SoapUI.
First off, my Java skills are very basic at best. Also, please forgive me if I use incorrect terms when it comes to XML nomenclature.
I need to read each <b:Bill> section and parse the various elements within each section. I can use the statement "//*[local-name()='AssessmentType']" and get the AssessmentType element from the 1st <b:Bill> section but that's it. I don't know how to access the 2nd and subsequent <b:Bill> sections. I checked a number of different articles on various sites including the forums but I haven't found anything that I can understand let alone make work. I thought using QName was going to be my answer but I can't figure out how to make that work.The more I read about this the more confused I get.
I found a reference somewhere using //Bills/Bill[1]/AssessmentType to access the 1st section and //Bills/Bill[2]/AssessmentType to access the 2nd section but that returns null in both instances. If I use //a:Bills/b:Bill/b:AssessmentType I get an exception, prefix must resolve to a namespace a: exception in org.Apache.xpath.domapi.XPathStylesheetDOM3Exception.
I event tried modifying the <b:Bill> tag to <b:Bill ID="1"> and using "//*[local-name()=[@ID=1]/AssessmentType" and <Bill ID="1"> but neither of those worked. I tried removing the b: from all of the elements and tried using the same syntax but I still get null.
I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction on how I can do what I need to do, if it's even possible. I'm sure it is, I just don't know how to go about it.
For testing, I just hard-coded the return XML string into a String variable, converted that to a document so I could use the Get XML Document Data step to parse it. The soapResponseStringModified variable is:
U"<s:Envelope xmlns:s=\"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/\"><s:Body><SOAPGetBillSummaryResponse xmlns=\"http://soap.xxx\"><SOAPGetBillSummaryResult xmlns:a=\"http://schemas.xxx\" xmlns:i=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\"><a:ErrorMessage i:nil=\"true\"/><a:Success>true</a:Success><a:BillCount>2</a:BillCount><a:Bills xmlns:b=\"http://schemas.xxx\"><b:Bill><b:AssessmentType>Annual</b:AssessmentType><b:BillAmount>8259.96</b:BillAmount><b:BillNumber>272818</b:BillNumber><b:BillType>Secured</b:BillType><b:IsRollover>False</b:IsRollover><b:LevyAmount>7508.24</b:LevyAmount><b:RollDate>2014</b:RollDate><b:TaxStatus>Cancelled</b:TaxStatus></b:Bill><b:Bill><b:AssessmentType>Additional</b:AssessmentType><b:BillAmount>7758.24</b:BillAmount><b:BillNumber>501340</b:BillNumber><b:BillType>Secured</b:BillType><b:IsRollover>False</b:IsRollover><b:LevyAmount>7758.24</b:LevyAmount><b:RollDate>2014</b:RollDate><b:TaxStatus>Unpaid</b:TaxStatus></b:Bill></a:Bills><a:GlobalData xmlns:b=\"http://schemas.xxx\"><b:Address>123 MAIN ST</b:Address><b:City>ANY TOWN</b:City><b:EDO>19500909</b:EDO><b:IsDelinquent>true</b:IsDelinquent><b:IsVoid>false</b:IsVoid><b:ParcelNumber>00000</b:ParcelNumber><b:State>XX</b:State><b:TaxRateArea>3016</b:TaxRateArea><b:TodaysDate>20150323</b:TodaysDate><b:Zip>00000</b:Zip></a:GlobalData><a:MainRoll>false</a:MainRoll></SOAPGetBillSummaryResult></SOAPGetBillSummaryResponse></s:Body></s:Envelope>"
Script (run in single-step mode from the IDE):
I appreciate any guidance.
Bill

It looks like I found a solution to my problem. I haven't explored this for all the possible SOAP methods I have to use but this "solution" looks encouraging.
If I do a replace() on the namespaces for a: and b: with an empty string, then replace the a:, /a:, b: and /b: with an empty string, I can use the XPath statements //Bill[1]/<FieldName>, //Bill[2]/<FieldName>, //Bill[x]/<FieldName> I can extract the data in a loop since I know the total number of bills ahead of time.
I replace xmlns:a="http://schemas.xxx" and xmlns:b="http://schemas.xxx" with "", I can extract the elements in the Bill tags.
It looks like this will solve my problem. It's not elegant but it works. When I loop through the elements, they' re updating appropriately based on the returned XML response.
I'm sure there's a more elegant way to solve this problem but based on my limited coding skills, I found this a workable solution. I don't know how to use all the various Java tools available to me so this does the job.
If someone knows the proper way to do this, I'd like to know how it's done. This will add to my toolkit and make my code easier to maintain down the road.
Bill

Parsing xml with dom4j - cannot find jar file

Hi,
I'm using Jdeveloper 10g and tomcat 5.5.9. I have a servlet which calls a java class (ParseXML.java) that trys to parse an xml string using dom4j. A snippet of ParseXML.java...
import org.dom4j.Document;
import org.dom4j.DocumentException;
import org.dom4j.io.SAXReader;
public class ParseXML {
public ParseXML(String xml) {
          this.XML_STRING = xml;
     public String parse() {
          SAXReader reader = new SAXReader();
          Document document = null;
          try {
               document = reader.read(XML_STRING);
               } catch (DocumentException de) {
               return de.getMessage();
          } catch (Exception e) {
               return e.getMessage();
               return "The xml root value is: " + document.getRootElement().getName();
} I've downloaded the dom4j 1.6.1 jar and put it on the project class path (specified in the jdev project proerties), and my code also compiles ok. But when i try to instantiate ParseXML from my servlet i get a runtime exception:
javax.servlet.ServletException: Servlet execution threw an exception
root cause
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/dom4j/DocumentException
     arcims.GetMapServlet.doPost(GetMap.java:45)
     javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:709)
     javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802I'm not sure if this is a class path issue or something else; i've checked and rechecked the classpath and nothing seems amiss.
Suggestions, anyone?

Question: Is it really necessary to use a
StringReader if my xml document is not saved to disk?
I get XML_STRING from a web service, convert it into
a xml document so i can manipulate/parse it, but then
i don't save the document, i just discard it. How
does my system's default character set affect string
manipulations that i do within my java app?Your system's default charset doesn't have anything to do with string manipulations, if by that you mean substrings and concatenations of strings. It is used when you convert strings to bytes and bytes to strings. If your string contains a character that can't be handled by your default charset, then converting that string to bytes will put ? in place of that character. Converting those bytes back to a string will leave the ? as is. Thus your string has been changed.
Also converting the string to bytes can have bad results, because the first thing the XML parser does is to convert the bytes back to a string, using the charset declared in the XML. If this charset is different from your system's default, then your XML may be corrupted by this process if it contains characters that are encoded differently in the two charsets. The typical example of this is European accented letters like �, which are encoded differently in ISO-8859-1 or Windows-1252 (most people's default charsets) and UTF-8 (the default XML charset).
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XML with HTML Tags... (easy points) 11g question

Dear Programming Gods,
I have been researching this for about 2 weeks now, and I have hit the final road block.
Using BI Publisher 11.1.1
In APEX 4.0 I have a Rich Text Field. The data from the Rich Text Field is store in CLOB. The data has HTML formatting tags. I have a data model that selects the data. I create an xml which has the html tags. I export the xml and import it into MS Word using the BI Publisher add-in. I import my subtemplate which handles almost all of the formatting tags. I apply the template to the CLOB field so that the HTML formatting tags will be rendered when printed.
The problem is this. The subtemplate is looking for this < and / > however BI publisher convters the tags stored in the CLOB from raw html tags to this &.lt; and &.gt; so the subtemplate can not match to it.
Here is what I need to figure out and please explain it in very novice terms.
When I generate and export the XML from BI Publisher how do I prevent it from converting my raw tags?
Here is some further assistance when prepairing your answer.
My subtemplate is based on the htmlmarkup.xsl from the following blog but has been modified heavily to include support for simple tables, more formatting such as subscripts and superscripts, ect...
http://blogs.oracle.com/xmlpublisher/2007/01/formatting_html_with_templates.html
I am also familliar with this blog but I do not understand how to implement it using BI 11g.
http://blogs.oracle.com/xmlpublisher/2009/08/raw_data.html
I have tried adding this to my layout but it doesnt seem to work.
<xsl: element name="R_CLOB" dataType="xdo:xml" value="R_CLOB" / >
Please, help me. I have to have this working in 4 days.
Richard

This did not work either. Here's more infor on what I have so far.
My data template looks like this:
<dataTemplate name="Data" description="Template">
     <parameters>
          <parameter name="p_person_id" dataType="character" defaultValue="1"/>
     </parameters>
     <dataQuery>
          <sqlStatement name="Q1">
                              select TEMPORARY_TEMPLATE_DATA.line_id as LABEL_line_ID,
TEMPORARY_TEMPLATE_DATA.column_id as LABEL_column_ID,
TEMPORARY_TEMPLATE_DATA.person_id as LABEL_PERSON_ID,
TEMPORARY_TEMPLATE_DATA.label as LABEL_DATA
from MY_BIO.clm_TEMPORARY_TEMPLATE_DATA TEMPORARY_TEMPLATE_DATA
Where person_id = :p_person_id
and style = 'L'
                         </sqlStatement>
          <sqlStatement name="Q2" parentQuery="Q1" parentColumn="LABEL_DATA">
                              select TEMPORARY_TEMPLATE_DATA.LINE_ID as LINE_ID,
TEMPORARY_TEMPLATE_DATA.COLUMN_ID as COLUMN_ID,
TEMPORARY_TEMPLATE_DATA.label as COLUMN_LABEL,
to_nclob(TEMPORARY_TEMPLATE_DATA.COLUMN_DATA) as COLUMN_DATA,
TEMPORARY_TEMPLATE_DATA.STYLE as STYLE,
TEMPORARY_TEMPLATE_DATA.ATTRIBUTE as ATTRIBUTE,
NVL(TEMPORARY_TEMPLATE_DATA.JUSTIFY,'L') as JUSTIFY
from MY_BIO.clm_TEMPORARY_TEMPLATE_DATA TEMPORARY_TEMPLATE_DATA
Where person_id =:p_person_id
and label = :LABEL_DATA
and style != 'L'
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                         </sqlStatement>
     </dataQuery>
     <dataStructure>
          <group name="G_LABEL" source="Q1">
               <element name="LColumnData" value="label_data"/>
               <group name="G_DATA" parentGroup="G_Label" source="Q2">
                    <element name="LineID" value="line_id"/>
                    <element name="ColumnID" value="column_id"/>
                    <element name="ColumnData" value="column_data"/>
                    <element name="Style" value="style"/>
                    <element name="Attribute" value="attribute"/>
                    <element name="Justify" value="justify"/>
               </group>
          </group>
     </dataStructure>
</dataTemplate>
After running this data_template there was no change in the xml file generated see partial : Note:
my test actually has the B with the html tags
</G_DATA>
- <G_DATA>
<LINEID>20</LINEID>
<COLUMNID>1</COLUMNID>
<COLUMNDATA>test test <B>my test</B></COLUMNDATA>
<STYLE>R</STYLE>
<ATTRIBUTE />
<JUSTIFY>C</JUSTIFY>
</G_DATA>
- <G_DATA>
<LINEID>21</LINEID>
I loaded in to MS Word but there was no change documnet still look the same. I left the commands import file command and xsl:apply-templates command in the word document template.
I really appreciate you helpiing me.
cheryl

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