Read XML file from different server on JSP

Question

Dear All,
I am a newbie to JSP with XML, now i want to read the "test.xml" from JSP.
I read successfully this "test.xml" file from my system and I got output, but I need to read the xml file from
different server like "http://www.domain.com/test.xml". I couldn't read such a type of file from different server.
Is it possible to read a xml file from different server?
If anybody have idea please let me know.
Thanks in Advance,
Prasath.
<%@ page import="java.sql.*,java.io.*,java.util.*,javax.xml.parsers.*,org.w3c.dom.*,org.xml.sax.*" %>
<%
try {
    DocumentBuilderFactory docBuilderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
    DocumentBuilder docBuilder = docBuilderFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
    Document doc = docBuilder.parse (new File("http://www.domain.com/test.xml"));
    // normalize text representation
    doc.getDocumentElement ().normalize ();
    out.println ("Root element of the doc is " +
         doc.getDocumentElement().getNodeName()+"<br>");
    NodeList listOfPersons = doc.getElementsByTagName("person");
    int totalPersons = listOfPersons.getLength();
    out.println("Total no of people : " + totalPersons+"<br>");
    for(int s=0; s<listOfPersons.getLength() ; s++){
        Node firstPersonNode = listOfPersons.item(s);
        if(firstPersonNode.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE){
            Element firstPersonElement = (Element)firstPersonNode;
            NodeList firstNameList = firstPersonElement.getElementsByTagName("first");
            Element firstNameElement = (Element)firstNameList.item(0);
            NodeList textFNList = firstNameElement.getChildNodes();
            out.println("First Name : " +
                   ((Node)textFNList.item(0)).getNodeValue().trim()+"<br>");
            NodeList lastNameList = firstPersonElement.getElementsByTagName("last");
            Element lastNameElement = (Element)lastNameList.item(0);
            NodeList textLNList = lastNameElement.getChildNodes();
            out.println("Last Name : " +
                   ((Node)textLNList.item(0)).getNodeValue().trim()+"<br>");
            NodeList ageList = firstPersonElement.getElementsByTagName("age");
            Element ageElement = (Element)ageList.item(0);
            NodeList textAgeList = ageElement.getChildNodes();
            out.println("Age : " +
                   ((Node)textAgeList.item(0)).getNodeValue().trim()+"<br>");
        }//end of if clause
    }//end of for loop with s var
}catch (SAXParseException err) {
out.println ("** Parsing error" + ", line "
     + err.getLineNumber () + ", uri " + err.getSystemId ());
out.println(" " + err.getMessage ());
}catch (SAXException e) {
Exception x = e.getException ();
((x == null) ? e : x).printStackTrace ();
}catch (Throwable t) {
t.printStackTrace ();
%>

Answer 1

You might try:
Document doc = docBuilder.parse ("http://www.domain.com/test.xml");Alternatively use the java.net package to obtain an Input Stream to the xml document
InputStream in = methodThatYouWriteYourselfCalledgetInputStreamForURI("http://www.domain.com/test.xml");
Document doc = docBuilder.parse (in);cheers,
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