Re:using an XML file in Web Dynpro for java

Question

Hi all,
I have pasted an xml file in Mimes->Components and my file name is Doc_List.xml after that i have done some manipulations using that file like this
DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
          DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
                               Document doc = db.parse("//Doc_List.xml");
          String name = "description";
          NodeList nlst = doc.getElementsByTagName("name");
          Node node= nlst.item(0).getFirstChild();
          //node.setNodeValue(name);
                     String a = node.getNodeValue();
                                wdComponentAPI.getMessageManager().reportSuccess(a);
the exception iam getting is java.io.FileNotFoundException: /Doc_List.xml (No such file or directory)

Answer 1

Hi,
   Place your xml file under the path src/mimes/Components/<your component name>. Then use the following code to read it:
String xmlUrl = WDURLGenerator.getResourcePath
                               (wdComponentAPI.getComponent().getDeployableObjectPart(),
                                "FileName.xml"
if(xmlUrl != null){
   Document doc = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance()
                                        .newDocumentBuilder()
                                        .parse(new File(xmlUrl));
   doc.getDocumentElement ().normalize ();
   // do further processing...
Regards,
Satyajit