Pass an XML element path in as a parameter of a class.

Hey all,
I am creating a class to handle some audio in an app I am building. This class will need to accept the XML element path as a passed parameter and or a getter.
examples of some XML elements I would like to pass to the the audio handler class to access them.
Dialog.introScreen.text
or
Dialog.secondScreen.main.text
ect.
I pretty sure this is not a string data type and thus cannot be passed as a string (I could be wrong though), if not, what data type would I pass it as?
Thanks.

you're welcome.
(and, you'll find out soon enough what type that is. if you try and cast that as an XMLList item - or anything else that can't be coerced into that type, flash will tell you it can't convert a Sprite or whatever into an XMLList object.)

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Eg, if the DTD says you have <!ELEMENT foo (a,b,c,d)> and you have <foo><a/><x/><d/></foo>, then the parser may well report the error before the startElement() call for the foo element, as it is invalid. Such fail-fast parser validation means you can safely update a persistant resource on receipt of the events, rather than having to wait until the element is closed before you are sure it's valid.
This works fine for <element/> tag. But now there is a problem with <element></element> tag.Post the code you have, show how you are mapping from the line no. in the exception to the source data, and state which parser you are using.
Pete

How to create XML element with out creating a document

I ve been looking for hours for a method to create an XML element without the need for the Document. I am trying to create objects that access the database, and I need in each of these objects a method that returns only an element (ie. getXMLData()). And in the class that created these object, I nee to call the getXML() methods and construct a document. However, I am not looking to create the document if I am not going to use it. In the component class I need to be able to traverse the xml element and read and modify the values. Is there a way to do so with sun's JDK ?

I ve been looking for hours for a method to create an
XML element without the need for the Document.
... I am not looking to create the document if I
am not going to use it.Hi M-A,
Though you have been told the solution, let's stick to your original issue, just for the sake of interest. I gather what you have in mind is finding the answer to the following question: is there a way of creating a document without having to bind it to any data source? The answer is yes. What you might need is the createDocument() method of the DOMImplementation interface which offers lightwight document handling by obviating the need to construct a particular DOM instance. (You could also use the getDOMImplementation() method of the DOMImplementationRegistry interface, but it has bugs.) Here's a sample code:DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder parser = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
DOMImplementation domImpl = parser.getDOMImplementation();
Document doc = domImpl.createDocument(null, "rootnode", null);The above code produces the following document:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rootnode/>You can make this document even skinnier if you pass null values to all three parameters of the createDocument() method, in which case the document will only contain the prolog. I think both the creation and the structure of this document are simple enough for you to use it as some sort of utility (e.g. by putting the code in a separate class) for creating elements.

XML element

I have following code snippet in pro *c. I'm Constructing XML element and passing to SP using Clob data type.
When compling pro *c i'm getting following error for xmlelement key word mentioned below
SELECT xmlelement("Id",
*.........1*
PLS-S-00201, identifier 'XMLELEMENT' must be declared
Error at line 203, test.pc
SELECT xmlelement("Id",
*.........1*
PLS-S-00000, SQL Statement ignored
EXEC SQL EXECUTE
declare
l_clob_xml_msg CLOB;
purge_dt DATE DEFAULT SYSDATE;
barcode_in CHAR(20) := 'TEST';
item_no CHAR(8) := '133444';
type_c CHAR(1) := 'C';
BEGIN
SELECT xmlelement("Id",
xmlelement("barCode", trim(barcode_in)),
xmlelement("item", item_no),
xmlelement("typeC", type_c),
xmlelement("purDate", purge_dt )).getclobVal()
INTO l_clob_xml_msg
FROM dual;
test_msg_sp(l_clob_xml_msg );
END;
END-EXEC;
Please let me know pro *c wont support xmlelement tag if i have embedded pl/sql block.
Thanks,
kannan

try this.
ap0021_element := dbms_xmldom.createElement(doc,'AP0021');
cntbtch_element := dbms_xmldom.createElement(doc,'CNTBTCH');
new_element := DBMS_XMLDOM.makeElement(
DBMS_XMLDOM.appendChild(DBMS_XMLDOM.makeNode(ap0021_element)
,DBMS_XMLDOM.makeNode(cntbtch_element)));

SAX, incor. data for XML element, XML 1.1 doc (1.0 ok) in JRE 6 (JRE 5 ok)

Hello,
for some reason, the test case below fails when driven with Java 6. Looks like, when long string data is stored in a XML element, DocumentHandler's characters() method will be provided with incorrect data.
With XML 1.0, parsing works fine in all my tests, Apache Xerces, JRE 5, JRE 6.
With XML 1.1., parsing works fine with Apache Xerces, JRE5 but not with JRE6.
I've checked it with latest JRE 6 update 4.
Anyone else xperiencing such problems with XML1.1 parsing when using JAXP bundled with Java 6?
I've tried to file a bug at bugdatabase, but for some reason I got no response for my issue - so I'm trying the forum now ;-)
Thanx for comments
Merten
import java.io.StringReader;
import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser;
import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory;
import org.xml.sax.Attributes;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler;
import junit.framework.TestCase;
import junit.framework.TestResult;
import junit.framework.TestSuite;
/** snippet to demonstrate problem in SAXParser */
public class ProblemWithSAXParser extends TestCase
public static void main(String[] args)
TestResult result=junit.textui.TestRunner.run(suite());
System.exit(result.wasSuccessful() ? 0 : 1);
private static junit.framework.Test suite()
final TestSuite ts=new TestSuite();
ts.addTestSuite(ProblemWithSAXParser.class);
return (ts);
/** small DocumentHandler, just waiting for one and only XML element <c></c> */
class MySAXDocumentHandler extends DefaultHandler
boolean listening=false;
public void startElement(final String uri, final String localName, final String qName, final Attributes attributes)
throws SAXException
System.out.println("startElement uri " + uri + " localName " + localName + " qName " + qName);
if("c".equals(qName))
listening=true;
public void endElement(final String uri, final String localName, final String qName) throws SAXException
System.out.println("endElement uri " + uri + " localName " + localName + " qName " + qName);
if("c".equals(qName))
listening=false;
public void characters(final char ch[], final int start, final int length) throws SAXException
if(listening)
final String str=new String(ch, start, length);
System.out.println("<c> element, start==" + start + " length==" + length + " ch.length==" + ch.length + " ch=="
+ str);
sb.append(str);
private final StringBuffer sb=new StringBuffer();
/** return what I got for XML element <c></c> */
public String toString()
return (sb.toString());
/** test an XML document with an element <c>, use XML 1.0 and XML 1.1 and some (more)
* content in the XML element */
public void testWithSunAndApache() throws Exception
// test XML element content for <c> element
final StringBuffer plain_str=new StringBuffer("");
for(int i=0; i < 500; i++)
plain_str.append("0123456789 This is some text ").append(i).append(". ");
final String xml_orig=plain_str.toString();
// SAX parsers, one Sun, one (original) Apache Xerces
// accept that Apache Xerces is not in path ...
final String prop_name="javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory";
final String prop_val_sun="com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserFactoryImpl";
final String prop_val_apache="org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserFactoryImpl";
System.setProperty(prop_name, prop_val_sun);
final SAXParser sax_sun=SAXParserFactory.newInstance().newSAXParser();
System.out.println("SaxParser Sun= " + sax_sun);
assertTrue(("" + sax_sun).indexOf("com.sun.") >= 0);
System.setProperty(prop_name, prop_val_apache);
SAXParser sax_apache;
try
sax_apache=SAXParserFactory.newInstance().newSAXParser();
catch(final Throwable t)
System.err.println("no Apache Xerces in path? " + t);
sax_apache=null;
System.out.println("SaxParser Apache= " + sax_apache);
assertTrue(sax_apache==null || ("" + sax_apache).startsWith("org.apache."));
// i==0: XML 1.0, i==1: XML 1.1
for(int i=0; i <= 1; i++)
assert i == 0 || i == 1;
final String xml_version=(i == 0 ? "1.0" : "1.1");
final StringBuffer sb=new StringBuffer("<?xml version=\"" + xml_version + "\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?><c>");
sb.append(xml_orig);
sb.append("</c>");
final String xml=sb.toString();
// parse it!
final StringReader string_reader_sun, string_reader_apache;
string_reader_sun=new StringReader(xml);
final InputSource input_source_sun=new InputSource(string_reader_sun);
string_reader_apache=new StringReader(xml);
final InputSource input_source_apache=new InputSource(string_reader_apache);
final MySAXDocumentHandler my_handler_sun, my_handler_apache;
my_handler_sun=new MySAXDocumentHandler();
my_handler_apache=new MySAXDocumentHandler();
sax_sun.parse(input_source_sun, my_handler_sun);
if(sax_apache!=null)
sax_apache.parse(input_source_apache, my_handler_apache);
final String xml_sun=my_handler_sun.toString();
final String xml_apache=my_handler_apache.toString();
assertNotNull(xml_sun);
assertNotNull(xml_apache);
System.out.println("xml version " + xml_version);
System.out.println("xml " + xml);
System.out.println("xml_orig " + xml_orig);
System.out.println("xml_sun " + xml_sun);
System.out.println("xml_apache " + xml_apache);
// test the data returned from DocumentHandler
if(sax_apache!=null)
assertEquals(xml_orig, xml_apache);
assertEquals(xml_orig.length(), xml_sun.length()); // length seems to be okay
assertEquals(xml_orig, xml_sun); // content seems to be not okay for XML 1.1
}

thanx, DrClap, haven't seen the "code" button for some reason, code is attached again
The output of my test is like this for JRE6 (truncated)
xml_sun 456789 This is is some text 0. 0123456789 This is some text 1.
xml_apache 0123456789 This is some text 0. 0123456789 This is some text 1.
Notice, xml_sun not only starts wrong ("0123" missing) - for some reason, the text there is not "This is some text" but "This is is some text" - very interesting in a way. I guess there's an issue with repeated text chunks ...
So, the data in my XML element is kind of changed, the length of the string is okay but the characters are "misplaced" or so :-) I thought about a problem with StringBuffer first, but the StringBuffer works fine for Apache ... so I really think there's an issue with JRE 6's parser for XML 1.1
Merten
import java.io.StringReader;
import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser;
import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory;
import org.xml.sax.Attributes;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler;
import junit.framework.TestCase;
import junit.framework.TestResult;
import junit.framework.TestSuite;
/** snippet to demonstrate problem in SAXParser */
public class ProblemWithSAXParser extends TestCase
public static void main(String[] args)
TestResult result=junit.textui.TestRunner.run(suite());
System.exit(result.wasSuccessful() ? 0 : 1);
private static junit.framework.Test suite()
final TestSuite ts=new TestSuite();
ts.addTestSuite(ProblemWithSAXParser.class);
return (ts);
/** small DocumentHandler, just waiting for one and only XML element <c></c> */
class MySAXDocumentHandler extends DefaultHandler
boolean listening=false;
public void startElement(final String uri, final String localName, final String qName, final Attributes attributes)
 throws SAXException
 System.out.println("startElement uri " + uri + " localName " + localName + " qName " + qName);
 if("c".equals(qName))
 listening=true;
public void endElement(final String uri, final String localName, final String qName) throws SAXException
 System.out.println("endElement uri " + uri + " localName " + localName + " qName " + qName);
 if("c".equals(qName))
 listening=false;
public void characters(final char ch[], final int start, final int length) throws SAXException
 if(listening)
 final String str=new String(ch, start, length);
 System.out.println("<c> element, start==" + start + " length==" + length + " ch.length==" + ch.length + " ch=="
 + str);
 sb.append(str);
private final StringBuffer sb=new StringBuffer();
/** return what I got for XML element <c></c> */
public String toString()
 return (sb.toString());
/** test an XML document with an element <c>, use XML 1.0 and XML 1.1 and some (more)
* content in the XML element */
public void testWithSunAndApache() throws Exception
// test XML element content for <c> element
final StringBuffer plain_str=new StringBuffer("");
for(int i=0; i < 500; i++)
 plain_str.append("0123456789 This is some text ").append(i).append(". ");
final String xml_orig=plain_str.toString();
// SAX parsers, one Sun, one (original) Apache Xerces
// accept that Apache Xerces is not in path ...
final String prop_name="javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory";
final String prop_val_sun="com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserFactoryImpl";
final String prop_val_apache="org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserFactoryImpl";
System.setProperty(prop_name, prop_val_sun);
final SAXParser sax_sun=SAXParserFactory.newInstance().newSAXParser();
System.out.println("SaxParser Sun= " + sax_sun);
assertTrue(("" + sax_sun).indexOf("com.sun.") >= 0);
System.setProperty(prop_name, prop_val_apache);
SAXParser sax_apache;
try
 sax_apache=SAXParserFactory.newInstance().newSAXParser();
catch(final Throwable t)
 System.err.println("no Apache Xerces in path? " + t);
 sax_apache=null;
System.out.println("SaxParser Apache= " + sax_apache);
assertTrue(sax_apache==null || ("" + sax_apache).startsWith("org.apache."));
// i==0: XML 1.0, i==1: XML 1.1
for(int i=0; i <= 1; i++)
 assert i == 0 || i == 1;
 final String xml_version=(i == 0 ? "1.0" : "1.1");
 final StringBuffer sb=new StringBuffer("<?xml version=\"" + xml_version + "\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?><c>");
 sb.append(xml_orig);
 sb.append("</c>");
 final String xml=sb.toString();
 // parse it!
 final StringReader string_reader_sun, string_reader_apache;
 string_reader_sun=new StringReader(xml);
 final InputSource input_source_sun=new InputSource(string_reader_sun);
 string_reader_apache=new StringReader(xml);
 final InputSource input_source_apache=new InputSource(string_reader_apache);
 final MySAXDocumentHandler my_handler_sun, my_handler_apache;
 my_handler_sun=new MySAXDocumentHandler();
 my_handler_apache=new MySAXDocumentHandler();
 sax_sun.parse(input_source_sun, my_handler_sun);
 if(sax_apache!=null)
 sax_apache.parse(input_source_apache, my_handler_apache);
 final String xml_sun=my_handler_sun.toString();
 final String xml_apache=my_handler_apache.toString();
 assertNotNull(xml_sun);
 assertNotNull(xml_apache);
 System.out.println("xml version " + xml_version);
 System.out.println("xml " + xml);
 System.out.println("xml_orig " + xml_orig);
 System.out.println("xml_sun " + xml_sun);
 System.out.println("xml_apache " + xml_apache);
 // test the data returned from DocumentHandler
 if(sax_apache!=null)
 assertEquals(xml_orig, xml_apache);
 assertEquals(xml_orig.length(), xml_sun.length()); // length seems to be okay
 assertEquals(xml_orig, xml_sun); // content seems to be not okay for XML 1.1
}

Oracle xml v2 parser collapses xml element nodes

Hi,
Whenever I pass load an XML document and parse it using the DOMParser object, it collapses empty XML elements. Eg, if my XML file has the following element:
<firstname></firstname>, once it passes through the parser, it becomes <firstname/>!
How can I prevent this from happening? Is there some setting that I can set to stop it?
Urgent response required.
thanks!
neelam

This is an incorrect statement.
Whether the incoming document had:
<x>
or
<x></x>
All that will be reflected in the DOM model is the presence of an "X" Element. An Element does not have a value in the DOM model (anyElement.getNodeValue() ALWAYS returns null). In either case, to associate a child text node with the "X" element, you would have to:
1) Construct a new Text node
2) Call appendChild() to append the child text node to the "X" element
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