Preload an xml document

Hi!
I've managed to preload an image with getBytes.../...total
properties but what about my XML document. Can I get statusinfo
while it loads into FlashPlayer?!?
PS I'm publishing to AS2.
Thanks

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Sudip Karnavat ([email protected]):
I need to parse an XML document consisting of metadata and actual content and load the same into database columns with the body content into a CLOB.
e.g.
<AUTHOR> Mike <AUTHOR>
<HEADLINE> About XML </HEADLINE>
<DOCUMENT>
This document outlines the details of the XML parser for PL/SQL .........
</DOCUMENT>
I need to load the author and headline fields to author and headline fields in the database and DOCUMENT field to a CLOB column.
What approach should I follow? Should I use the XML Parser for PL/SQL ? Are there any sample examples.
Thanks
Sudip<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Sudip,
I forgot to add that really what you need to
do is write a transformation using XSLT and
only pick the information you need to store.
If you want just e-mail me the xml file and I
will do that-:)

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XML data:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<images>
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This brings me to furniture maker Emmanuel Delalain and his company Atelier Delalain who are doing the most marvelous things in wood and metal. With clean elegant lines, highly considered functionality, and a rich sensual poetry to his work, it didn't surprise us to learn that Delalain honed his craft as a young man in the Southern French coastal workshop of his father and grandfather building sailboats.
To view full article click here.<a href="http://www.strutdenver.com" target="_blank">Strut</a>]]></desc>
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        <thumbwidth>47</thumbwidth>
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        title = [];
        desc = [];
        dims = [];
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        imageW = [];
        subimage = [];
        subthumb = [];
        subW = [];
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            title[i] = xmlNode.childNodes[i].childNodes[1].firstChild.nodeValue;
            desc[i] = xmlNode.childNodes[i].childNodes[2].firstChild.nodeValue;
            dims[i] = xmlNode.childNodes[i].childNodes[3].firstChild.nodeValue;
            note[i] = xmlNode.childNodes[i].childNodes[4].firstChild.nodeValue;
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            imageW[i] = xmlNode.childNodes[i].childNodes[6].firstChild.nodeValue;
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Thank you for your replies
I tried adding the code mentioned, but I still can't get it to work. I added:
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title_txt.htmlText = title[p];
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I try to load an XML document using a structured application defined in the default structapps.fm
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Our friends in Java land are insisting on passing data between Java and PL/SQL using fairly small XML documents (don't ask). I then need to extract the input parameter values and pass them, on to the stored procedures that actually do the work. These return a result which needs to be returned to the java layer in the output XML document.
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<Parameter>
<Id>1</Id>
<Result xsi:nil="true"/>
</Parameter>
<Parameter>
<Id>2</Id>
<Result xsi:nil="true"/>
</Parameter>
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<Parameter>
<Id>1</Id>
*<Result>SUCCESS</Result>*
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<Parameter>
<Id>2</Id>
*<Result>WARNING</Result>*
</Parameter>
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create or replace
PROCEDURE ExtractXMLValues (p_inXml IN CLOB ) IS
l_string VARCHAR2(4000);
l_value VARCHAR2(4000);
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l_DOM_node dbms_xmldom.DOMNode;
l_new_DOM_node dbms_xmldom.DOMNode;
l_new_element dbms_xmldom.DOMElement;
l_new_DOM_nodevalue dbms_xmldom.DOMNode;
l_value_Node dbms_xmldom.DOMNode;
l_parameter_Node dbms_xmldom.DOMNode;
--l_DOM_nodelist dbms_xmldom.DOMNodeList;
l_Result_DOM_node dbms_xmldom.DOMNode;
BEGIN
l_DOM_doc := dbms_xmldom.newDomDocument(p_inXml);
l_DOM_node := dbms_xmldom.makeNode(l_DOM_doc);
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l_Result_DOM_node := dbms_xslprocessor.selectSingleNode(l_DOM_node,'//Id');
l_value_Node := dbms_xmldom.getFirstChild(l_Result_DOM_node);
l_value := dbms_xmldom.getnodevalue(l_value_Node);
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l_Result_DOM_node := dbms_xslprocessor.selectSingleNode(l_DOM_node,'//Result');
l_value_Node := dbms_xmldom.getFirstChild(l_Result_DOM_node);
l_value := dbms_xmldom.getnodevalue(l_value_Node);
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dbms_output.put_line('3 ' || l_string || ' : ' || l_value);
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dbms_output.put_line('4 New node : ' || l_string);
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l_new_DOM_nodevalue := dbms_xmldom.makenode(dbms_xmldom.createtextnode(l_DOM_doc, 'SUCCESS'));
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dbms_xmldom.writeToBuffer(l_parameter_node, l_string);
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dbms_xmldom.writeToBuffer(l_DOM_node, l_string);
dbms_output.put_line('7 Updated document ' || l_string);
dbms_xmldom.freeDocument(l_DOM_doc);
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and the output...
1 <ParameterList xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<Parameter>
<Id>1</Id>
<Result xsi:nil="true"/>
</Parameter>
</ParameterList>
2 <Id>1</Id> : 1
3 <Result xsi:nil="true"/> :
4 New node : <Result/>
5 New node value : SUCCESS
6 New node : <Result>SUCCESS</Result>
6 parameter node : <Parameter>
<Id>1</Id>
<Result>SUCCESS</Result>
</Parameter>
7 Updated document <ParameterList xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<Parameter>
<Id>1</Id>
*<Result>SUCCESS</Result>*
</Parameter>
</ParameterList>
One question, why do the dbms_xmldom functions return the Old value? I was expecting the returned value to be the updated node.
Edited by: Lone voice on May 14, 2009 11:24 AM

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The following code will parse and XML document and generate (practically) unchanged output. However, all attributes are ordered a-z
Example: The following element
<work_item_type work_item_db_site="0000000000000000" work_item_db_id="0" work_item_type_code="3" user_tag_ident="Step" name="Work Step" gmt_last_updated="2008-12-31T18:00:00.000000000" last_upd_db_site="0000000000000000" last_upd_db_id="0" rstat_type_code="1">
</work_item_type>is output as:
<work_item_type gmt_last_updated="2008-12-31T18:00:00.000000000" last_upd_db_id="0" last_upd_db_site="0000000000000000" name="Work Step" rstat_type_code="1" user_tag_ident="Step" work_item_db_id="0" work_item_db_site="0000000000000000" work_item_type_code="3">
</work_item_type>As you may notice, there is no difference in these besides order of the attributes!
I am convened that the problem is not in the stylesheet.xslt but if you are not then it is posted bellow.
Please, someone help me out with this! I have a feeling the solution is simple
The following take the XML from source.xml and outputs it to DEST_filename with attributes in a-z order
Code:
private void OutputFile(String DEST_filename, String style_filename){
     //StreamSource stylesheet = new StreamSource(style_filename);
     try{
          File dest_file = new File(DEST_filename);
          if(!dest_file.exists())
              dest_file.createNewFile();
          TransformerFactory tranFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
          Transformer aTransformer = tranFactory.newTransformer();
          aTransformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.ENCODING, "UTF-8");
          Source src = new DOMSource("source.xml");
          Result dest = new StreamResult(dest_file);
          aTransformer.transform(src, dest);
          System.out.println("Finished");
     catch(Exception e){
          System.err.print(e);
          System.exit(-1);
    }

You can't. The reason is, the XML Recommendation explicitly says the order of attributes is not significant. Therefore conforming XML serializers won't treat it as if it were significant.
If you have an environment where you think that the order of attributes is significant, your first step should be to reconsider. Possibly it isn't really significant and you are over-reaching in some way. Or possibly someone writing requirements is ignorant of this fact and the requirement can be discarded.
Or possibly your output is being given to somebody else who has a defective parser which expects the attributes to be in a particular order. You could quote the XML Recommendation to those people but often XML bozos are resistant to change. If you're stuck writing for that parser then you'll have to apply some non-XML processing to your output to fix it up on their behalf.

Display xml documents - how to submit a feature request?

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Is there an official way to submit a feature request for safari to apple? I would love to see something similar to what firefox does with xml. Safari is such a fast and nice browser, if it only could handle text/xml better...

As you said Safari simply shows all xml element content concatenated together. But no tags or attribute values. If the ContentType in the http header is set to text/xml Firefox shows an xml tree that you can nicely browse. I think IE5+ and Opera do that too. It is important to set the right content type though. Here is an example that shows nice in FF, but is unreadable in Safari:
http://ww3.bgbm.org/biocase/pywrapper.cgi?dsa=Herbar
Sure you can look at the source code, but the xml might not be pretty printed.

Displaying XML Document in new browser window

Hi,
I have a hyperlink on my page. When I click on it, it will open a new IE window and display xml document.
The new window is displaying some of the xml and at the end displaying the following:
The XML page cannot be displayed
Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later.
End element was missing the character '>'. Error processing resource 'http://localhost:28080/benchmark/faces/displayXMLDocu...
However, I cut and paste the xml String where I write it to the HTTPServletResponse to XMLSPY and it displays correctly.
Please let me know.
Rgrds

Here are the steps:
1. I created page1 that has a hyperlink.
2. Hyperlink property are set to display page2 in a new window. (popup).
3. page2.prerender() method, I set the response to the following:
public void prerender() {
javax.faces.context.ExternalContext ec = this.getExternalContext();
HttpServletResponse response = (HttpServletResponse)ec.getResponse();
response.setHeader("Cache-Control","no-cache");
response.setHeader("Cache-Control","no-store");
response.setHeader("Cache-Control","must-revalidate");
response.setHeader("Cache-Control","max-age=0");
response.setHeader("Pragma","no-cache");
response.setHeader("Expires","0");
response.setContentType("text/xml");
response.setBufferSize(5000);
String xmlString = getRequestBean1().getBookingPnrDetailsXML();
try{
xmlString="<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?><root><test1>this is a test</test1><victor>Hello Victor</victor></root>";
PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(response.getOutputStream());
log(xmlString);
out.print(xmlString);
}catch(IOException io){
System.out.println("" + io.getMessage());
io.printStackTrace();
4.page2.jsp code is the following:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jsp:root version="1.2" xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core" xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" xmlns:jsp="http://java.sun.com/JSP/Page" xmlns:ui="http://www.sun.com/web/ui">
<jsp:directive.page contentType="text/xml;charset=UTF-8" pageEncoding="UTF-8"/>
<f:view/>
<ui:page binding="#{displayXMLDocument.page1}" id="page1"/>
<ui:html binding="#{displayXMLDocument.html1}" id="html1"/>
<ui:head binding="#{displayXMLDocument.head1}" id="head1"/>
<ui:link binding="#{displayXMLDocument.link1}" id="link1"/>
<ui:body binding="#{displayXMLDocument.body1}" id="body1"/>
<ui:form binding="#{displayXMLDocument.form1}" id="form1"/>
</jsp:root>
please let me know.
Rgrds.

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Hi All,
We are connecting our CCMS system to NetWeaver J2EE engine on which E-Sourcing is running.
For this we registered java component and hosts in cen.
But we are getting error as : No valid XML document received
Please can anyone tell me how to overcome this error.
Thank you .
Regards
Mahesh

Hi,
Please re-read the answer from Marc carefully. He was in the exact same situation as yours:
- Monitored system: NW CE 7.1
- CEN: NW 7.01 (same as NW 7.0 EhP1)
The link you posted is for CEN with NW 7.3 and monitored systems from NW 7.02 (and up). Read the paragraph below the Caution sign:
If you want to centrally monitor any system with a central monitoring system with release SAP NetWeaver 7.0, this procedure is not applicable. In this case, follow the procedure described in the newest Monitoring Setup Guide for SAP NetWeaver 7.0 instead. You can obtain the Monitoring Setup Guide at the Internet address service.sap.com/operationsnw70 in the Monitoring area.
You should look for (and follow) the right Monitoring Setup Guide as mentioned.
Regards,
Dao
Edited by: Dao Ha on Sep 19, 2011 10:38 AM

How to insert data into a table from an xml document

using the XmlSql Utility, how do I insert data into a table from an xml document, using the sqlplus prompt.
if i use the xmlgen.insertXML(....)
requires a CLOB file, which i dont have, only the xml doc.
Cant i insert directly from the doc to the table?
the xmlgen examples I have seen first convert a table to a CLOB xmlString and then insert it into another table.
Isnt there any other way?

Your question is little perplexing.
If you're using XML SQL Utility from
the commandline, just use putXML.
java OracleXML putXML
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How can I access xml document from javascript whithin a JSP page

how can I access xml document from javascript whithin a JSP page?
I have a JSP that receives an XML document from a JavaBean, so I can access it within the entire JSP, but I need to access it from the javascript inside the JSP... and I have no idea how i can do this.
Thanks in advance!

The solution would only work on MS IE browsers, as other browsers do not support an XML DOM.
It can be done, but you would be stuck with using the Microsoft broswer. If that is acceptable, I have some example code, and a book recommendation.

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I have extracted some code from codeproject to
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// http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/43309/How-to-create-a-simple-XML-file-using-MSXML-in-C
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R"!(<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>)!"
R"!(<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">)!"
R"!( <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>)!"
R"!( <xsl:template match="@* | node()">)!"
R"!( <xsl:copy>)!"
R"!( <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()"/>)!"
R"!( </xsl:copy>)!"
R"!( </xsl:template>)!"
R"!(</xsl:stylesheet>)!";
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pXmlFormattedDoc.CreateInstance(__uuidof(MSXML2::DOMDocument60));
CComPtr<IDispatch> pDispatch;
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if (SUCCEEDED(hr))
_variant_t vtOutObject;
vtOutObject.vt = VT_DISPATCH;
vtOutObject.pdispVal = pDispatch;
vtOutObject.pdispVal->AddRef();
hr = pDoc->transformNodeToObject(pXmlStyleSheet, vtOutObject);
//By default it is writing the encoding = UTF-16. Let us change the encoding to UTF-8
// <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
MSXML2::IXMLDOMNodePtr pXMLFirstChild = pXmlFormattedDoc->GetfirstChild();
// A map of the a attributes (vesrsion, encoding) values (1.0, UTF-8) pair
MSXML2::IXMLDOMNamedNodeMapPtr pXMLAttributeMap = pXMLFirstChild->Getattributes();
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pXMLEncodNode->PutnodeValue(_T("UTF-8")); //encoding = UTF-8
return pXmlFormattedDoc;
Or, if there is some other method for reindenting a MSXML2::IXMLDOMDocumentPtr object where I can specify how I want empty tags to be stored, that would be great too. However, I don't want it to lose its status of an MSXML2::IXMLDOMDocumentPtr object.
I.e. I would like to still perform operations on the result as if it was still an MSXML2::IXMLDOMDocumentPtr object.
Thanks,
A
Adrian

If anyone is interested, I got an answer on StackOverflow
here.
Adrian

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For instance in the way you could it retrieve if the XML document was stored in an XMLType column (CLOB based)
SQL> r
1 select dbms_lob.getlength(t.gegevens.getclobval()) "SIZE"
2 from hgo.hgo010_detam t
3* where rownum < 2
SIZE
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Is there a way to find out (via SQL) the size of a XML document stored in a XMLType table or XMLType column (storage OR based)?
For instance in the way you could it retrieve if the XML document was stored in an XMLType column (CLOB based)
SQL> r
1 select dbms_lob.getlength(t.gegevens.getclobval()) "SIZE"
2 from hgo.hgo010_detam t
3* where rownum < 2
SIZE
2750

How to save sections of a single XML Document to multiple tables ?

Firstly, I apologise for the long e-mail but I feel it's necessary in order to clarify my problem/question.
The XML document representation below stores information about a particular database. From the information in the XML document you can tell that there is a single database called "tst" which contains a single table called "tst_table". This table in turn has two columns called "CompanyName" & "Country".
I want to use Oracle's XML SQL Utility to store this information into three seperate database tables. Specifically, I want to store the information pertaining to the database (i.e. name etc.) in one table, the information pertaining to the table (name, no. of columns etc.) in another and the information pertaining to the columns (name, type etc.) in yet another table.
I have seen samples where an entire XML Document is saved to a database table but I cannot find any examples where different sections of a single XML Document are saved into different database tables using the XML SQL Utility.
Can you please tell me the best approach to take in order to accomplish this . Does it involve creating an XMLDocument and then extracting the relevant sections as XMLDocumentFragment's, retrieving the String representations of these XMLDocumentFragment's and passing these strings to the OracleXMLSave.insertXml() method.
Is this the best approach to take or are there any other, perhaps more efficient or elegant, ways of doing this ?
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- Garry
<DATABASE id="1" name="tst">
<TABLES>
<TABLE name="tst_table">
<NAME>Customers</NAME>
<COLUMNS>
<COLUMN num="1"> <COLID>2</COLID>
<COLNAME>CompanyName</COLNAME>
<COLTYPE>Text</COLTYPE>
</COLUMN>
<COLUMN num="2">
<COLID>3</COLID>
<COLNAME>Country</COLNAME>
<COLTYPE>Text</COLTYPE>
</COLUMN>
</COLUMNS>
</TABLE>
</TABLES>
</DATABASE>
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See this thread;
{thread:id=2180799}
Jeff

SSRS Reports getting error in XML document (1, 6110).

Hi,
SCCM 2012 R2 Query reports opening error it shows below errors few reports only open properly.
Stack Trace:
   at Microsoft.Reporting.WinForms.Internal.Soap.ReportingServices2005.Execution.RSExecutionConnection.ProxyMethodInvocation.Execute[TReturn](RSExecutionConnection connection, ProxyMethod`1 initialMethod, ProxyMethod`1 retryMethod)
   at Microsoft.Reporting.WinForms.Internal.Soap.ReportingServices2005.Execution.RSExecutionConnection.LoadReport(String Report, String HistoryID)
   at Microsoft.Reporting.WinForms.ServerReport.EnsureExecutionSession()
   at Microsoft.Reporting.WinForms.ServerReport.SetParameters(IEnumerable`1 parameters)
   at Microsoft.ConfigurationManagement.AdminConsole.SrsReporting.ReportViewerWindowsForms.SetParameterValues_DoWork(Object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e)
System.InvalidOperationException
There is an error in XML document (1, 6648).
Stack Trace:
   at Microsoft.Reporting.WinForms.Internal.Soap.ReportingServices2005.Execution.RSExecutionConnection.ProxyMethodInvocation.Execute[TReturn](RSExecutionConnection connection, ProxyMethod`1 initialMethod, ProxyMethod`1 retryMethod)
   at Microsoft.Reporting.WinForms.Internal.Soap.ReportingServices2005.Execution.RSExecutionConnection.LoadReport(String Report, String HistoryID)
   at Microsoft.Reporting.WinForms.ServerReport.EnsureExecutionSession()
   at Microsoft.Reporting.WinForms.ServerReport.SetParameters(IEnumerable`1 parameters)
   at Microsoft.ConfigurationManagement.AdminConsole.SrsReporting.ReportViewerWindowsForms.SetParameterValues_DoWork(Object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e)
System.Xml.XmlException
'', hexadecimal value 0x1F, is an invalid character. Line 1, position 6648.
Stack Trace:
   at Microsoft.Reporting.WinForms.Internal.Soap.ReportingServices2005.Execution.RSExecutionConnection.ProxyMethodInvocation.Execute[TReturn](RSExecutionConnection connection, ProxyMethod`1 initialMethod, ProxyMethod`1 retryMethod)
   at Microsoft.Reporting.WinForms.Internal.Soap.ReportingServices2005.Execution.RSExecutionConnection.LoadReport(String Report, String HistoryID)
   at Microsoft.Reporting.WinForms.ServerReport.EnsureExecutionSession()
   at Microsoft.Reporting.WinForms.ServerReport.SetParameters(IEnumerable`1 parameters)
   at Microsoft.ConfigurationManagement.AdminConsole.SrsReporting.ReportViewerWindowsForms.SetParameterValues_DoWork(Object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e)
Kiran

This has already been discussed and solved, please use the search funtion:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home?category=systemcenter2012configurationmanager&sort=relevancedesc&brandIgnore=True&searchTerm=There+is+an+error+in+XML+document+
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