Want to accept XML file and parse it.

Hi Experts,
I want to develop an application in BSP where i have to accept XML file(File is given below) on internet,
and want to parse the data inside that file.
My doubts are
1.how to accept XML file
2.how to parse it and get the required fields from that XML,
here in case of my file i want these fields,
a.VERIFIED
b.OID
c.TVAL
d.REF
XML file :
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<VerifyOutput OID='EN124778' TVAL='50000' REF=ABCD123412341234
VERIFIED='SUCCESS'>
</VerifyOutput>
Please don't give generalize answer.
tell me all the steps in detail because i dont even know how i will accept that XML file on internet,
parsing will come later so please answer both the questions.
i dont know what is "HTTP Request".

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s_tab(stud).STUDENT_STREET,s_tab(stud).STUDENT_APART_NO,null,null,null ,null , null,
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s_tab(stud).STUDENT_PRI_LANG ,s_tab(stud).STUDENT_SEC_LANG, null, null ,null , null,
null ,null , null, null ,null , null, null ,null , null, null ,null , null, null ,null , null, null ,null , null, null ,null , null,
null ,null , null, null ,null , null, null ,null , null, null ,null , null, null ,null , null, null ,null , null, null ,null , null,
null ,null , null, null ,null , null, null ,null , null, null ,null , null, null ,null , null, null ,null , null, null ,null , null,
null ,null , null, null ,null , null, null ,null , null, null ,null , null, null ,null , null, null ,null , null, null ,null , null,
null ,null , null, null ,null , null, null ,null , null, null ,null , null, null ,null , null, null ,null , null, null ,null , null,
null ,null , null, null ,null , null, null ,null , null, null ,null , null, null ,null , null, null ,null , null, null, null,null );
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l_error_code := SQLERRM;
INSERT INTO AUDIT_XMLSTUD1(XMLSTUDPK,USERID,XMLFILE,STATUS,REASON_FOR_ERROR,DATE_MODIFIED)
VALUES(SEQ_XMLSTUD1.NEXTVAL,USER,nvl(DOC,TO_CLOB('No .XML file entered, user pressed button without entering correct information.')),'NO',l_error_code,SYSDATE);
HTP.HTMLOPEN;
v_failure:= 'The attempt made to insert files to the Student table has failed because,'||l_error_code;
htp.bold(v_failure);
HTP.HTMLCLOSE;
COMMIT;
END UPDSTUDLOAD;
PROCEDURE DELSTUDLOAD (DOC CLOB) IS
v_parser xmlparser.Parser;
v_doc xmldom.DOMDocument;
v_nl xmldom.DOMNodeList;
v_n xmldom.DOMNode;
v_mm NUMBER;
v_dd NUMBER;
v_yyyy NUMBER;
v_DATE DATE;
TYPE stuxml_type IS TABLE OF STUDENTS%ROWTYPE;
s_tab stuxml_type := stuxml_type();
v_success VARCHAR2(200);
v_failure VARCHAR2(200);
l_error_code varchar2(200);
BEGIN
-- Create a parser.
v_parser := xmlparser.newParser;
xmlparser.setValidationMode(v_parser, FALSE);
-- Parse the document and create a new DOM document.
SYS.XMLPARSER.PARSECLOB ( v_parser, DOC );
v_doc := SYS.XMLPARSER.getDocument(v_parser);
-- Free resources associated with the Parser now it is no longer needed.
xmlparser.freeParser(v_parser);
-- Get a list of all the STUD nodes in the document using the XPATH syntax.
v_nl := xslprocessor.selectNodes(xmldom.makeNode(v_doc),'/com.welligent.Student.BasicStudent.Create/DataArea/NewData/BasicStudent');
-- Loop through the list and create a new record in a table collection for each STUD record.
FOR stud IN 0 .. xmldom.getLength(v_nl) - 1 LOOP
v_n := xmldom.item(v_nl, stud);
s_tab.extend;
-- Use XPATH syntax to assign values to he elements of the collection.
s_tab(s_tab.last).STUDENT_LAST_NAME :=xslprocessor.valueOf(v_n,'/com.welligent.Student.BasicStudent.Create/DataArea/NewData/BasicStudent/Name/LastName');
     s_tab(s_tab.last).STUDENT_FIRST_NAME :=xslprocessor.valueOf(v_n,'/com.welligent.Student.BasicStudent.Create/DataArea/NewData/BasicStudent/Name/FirstName');
     s_tab(s_tab.last).STUDENT_MI :=xslprocessor.valueOf(v_n,'/com.welligent.Student.BasicStudent.Create/DataArea/NewData/BasicStudent/Name/MiddleName');
     v_dd := xslprocessor.valueOf(v_n,'/com.welligent.Student.BasicStudent.Create/DataArea/NewData/BasicStudent/BirthDate/Day');
     v_mm := xslprocessor.valueOf(v_n,'/com.welligent.Student.BasicStudent.Create/DataArea/NewData/BasicStudent/BirthDate/Month');
v_yyyy := xslprocessor.valueOf(v_n,'/com.welligent.Student.BasicStudent.Create/DataArea/NewData/BasicStudent/BirthDate/Year');
     v_DATE := TO_DATE(v_mm||' '||v_dd||' '||v_yyyy,'MMDDYYYY');
     s_tab(s_tab.last).STUDENT_DOB := v_date;
     s_tab(s_tab.last).STUDENT_STREET :=xslprocessor.valueOf(v_n,'/com.welligent.Student.BasicStudent.Create/DataArea/NewData/BasicStudent/Address/Street');
     s_tab(s_tab.last).STUDENT_APART_NO :=xslprocessor.valueOf(v_n,'/com.welligent.Student.BasicStudent.Create/DataArea/NewData/BasicStudent/Address/ApartmentNumber');
     s_tab(s_tab.last).STUDENT_COUNTY :=xslprocessor.valueOf(v_n,'/com.welligent.Student.BasicStudent.Create/DataArea/NewData/BasicStudent/Address/County');
     s_tab(s_tab.last).STUDENT_STATE :=xslprocessor.valueOf(v_n,'/com.welligent.Student.BasicStudent.Create/DataArea/NewData/BasicStudent/Address/State');
     s_tab(s_tab.last).STUDENT_ZIP :=xslprocessor.valueOf(v_n,'/com.welligent.Student.BasicStudent.Create/DataArea/NewData/BasicStudent/Address/ZipCode');
END LOOP;
FOR stud IN s_tab.first..s_tab.last LOOP
     DELETE FROM STUDENTS
     WHERE SHISID = 123456789025;
END LOOP;
INSERT INTO AUDIT_XMLSTUD1(XMLSTUDPK,USERID,XMLFILE,STATUS,REASON_FOR_ERROR,DATE_MODIFIED)
VALUES(SEQ_XMLSTUD1.NEXTVAL,USER,DOC,'Y',NULL,SYSDATE);
HTP.HTMLOPEN;
v_success:= 'The .XML file has been successfully deleted from the STUDENTS table in the Oracle Database.';
htp.bold(v_success);
HTP.HTMLCLOSE;
COMMIT;
-- Free any resources associated with the document now it that it is no longer needed.
xmldom.freeDocument(v_doc);
EXCEPTION
WHEN OTHERS THEN
l_error_code := SQLERRM;
INSERT INTO AUDIT_XMLSTUD1(XMLSTUDPK,USERID,XMLFILE,STATUS,REASON_FOR_ERROR,DATE_MODIFIED)
VALUES(SEQ_XMLSTUD1.NEXTVAL,USER,nvl(DOC,TO_CLOB('No .XML file entered, user pressed button without entering correct information.')),'NO',l_error_code,SYSDATE);
HTP.HTMLOPEN;
v_failure:= 'The attempt made to insert files to the Student table has failed because,'||l_error_code;
htp.bold(v_failure);
HTP.HTMLCLOSE;
COMMIT;
END DELSTUDLOAD;
END XMLSTUD6;

Try opening the problem files using a text editor or file viewer to see what the first few bytes contain. All valid FM binary files for FM 11 will contain <MakerFile 11.0> in the first bytes of the file.
When updating books, it's sometimes better to just to create a new book file and add the files to that.
When renaming files in a book, changes at the system level will break any links/cross-references between files, so it's always best to use the Rename option in the Book file to change FM file names. This will maintain the correct linkages.

Parsing large xml file and display using swing

Hi all,
I want to read a large xml file and display graphically in swing as a tree structure.
I implemented it and works fine for files of 5MB size after increasing the jvm heap size (-Xmx). If the file size is larger than 5MB it throws out of memory error. I'm creating a custom datastructure from the xml and I'm using sax parsing.
After displaying the datastructure, the user could do some operation on this, like search etc.
Can any of you suggest a method, to support larger files ? What I'm looking for is create the datastructure in file system, rather than in memory.
Any other tips for memory management would be greatly appreciated
Thanks in Advance.
Nisha

Use a memory-mapped file?
http://javaalmanac.com/egs/java.nio/CreateMemMap.html

Parse exisitng xml file and recreate another xml file with different struct

Is it possible in java using dom parser to parse an exisiting xml file and recreate a new xml file from data obtained by parsing old xml file.
I checked on old forum threads and everywhere either parsing xml file has been explained or creating new xml file from scratch has been shown.
Any examples/guidance will be appreciated....

The general process is:
Document dom1 = ... // the parsed document
Document dom2 = ... // new document constructed on the fly
Node nD1 = ... // some random node found in dom1
// copy the node from dom1 and associate with dom2
Node nD2 = dom2.importNode(nD1, true);
// ... treat nD2 as a node which can now be inserted into dom2 ...
Node otherD2 = ... // some other node already in dom2
otherD2.appendChild(nD2);Note, in this example the nD1 node is copied (including any sub-nodes) into a new node, nD2. You can alternately move the node from one Document to another using Document.adoptNode(), however this may fail (see the javadoc).

Parse XML file and extract data

I'd like to parse an XML file and get some data extracted as columns.
Input file country.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<MAS Action="Insert">
<Country ObjectId="100000000000000009" VersionId="8"><Id>1</Id><NlTexts><Name Language="de">Land1</Name><Name Language="en">Country1</Name></NlTexts></Country>
<Country ObjectId="100000000000000033" VersionId="2"><Id>2</Id><NlTexts><Name Language="de">Land2</Name><Name Language="en">Country1</Name></NlTexts></Country>
</MAS>
I'd like to parse the xmlfile in order to get the following output
Required result:
col1        col2           col3
1            Land1        Country1
2            Land2        Country2
or alternatively
col1 col2
1            Land1
1            Country1
2            Land2
2            Country2
I tried extract-function
select extract((XMLTYPE(BFILENAME('XML_DAT_DIR', 'country.xml'),
           NLS_CHARSET_ID('AL32UTF8'))) , '/*/*/Id') as "xdata"
from dual;
xdata
<Id>1</Id><Id>2</Id>
and XMLTABLE (but how can I add the countries now)
SELECT *
    FROM XMLTABLE('/*/*/Id'
           PASSING XMLTYPE(BFILENAME('XML_DAT_DIR', 'country.xml'),
           NLS_CHARSET_ID('AL32UTF8'))
COLUMN_VALUE
<Id>1</Id>
<Id>2</Id>
DB version 11.2.0.3 on Windows 64bit
Thanks,
Tim

Here are a few examples.
For your required output :
SELECT *
FROM XMLTable(
       '/MAS/Country'
       passing XMLType(bfilename('TEST_DIR', 'country.xml'), nls_charset_id('AL32UTF8'))
       columns col1 number       path 'Id'
             , col2 varchar2(30) path 'NlTexts/Name[1]'
             , col3 varchar2(30) path 'NlTexts/Name[2]'
or, if the Language attribute is significant :
SELECT *
FROM XMLTable(
       '/MAS/Country'
       passing XMLType(bfilename('TEST_DIR', 'country.xml'), nls_charset_id('AL32UTF8'))
       columns col1 number       path 'Id'
             , col2 varchar2(30) path 'NlTexts/Name[@Language="de"]'
             , col3 varchar2(30) path 'NlTexts/Name[@Language="en"]'
For your alternate output :
SELECT x1.col1
     , x2.col2
     --, x2.col3
FROM XMLTable(
       '/MAS/Country'
       passing XMLType(bfilename('TEST_DIR', 'country.xml'), nls_charset_id('AL32UTF8'))
       columns col1 number path 'Id'
             , names xmltype path 'NlTexts/Name'
     ) x1
   , XMLTable(
       '/Name'
       passing x1.names
       columns col2 varchar2(30) path '.'
             --, col3 for ordinality
     ) x2
(uncomment col3 to see what it does)
or, in a shorter way :
SELECT *
FROM XMLTable(
       'for $i in /MAS/Country
          , $j in $i/NlTexts/Name
        return element r { $i/Id, $j }'
       passing XMLType(bfilename('TEST_DIR', 'country.xml'), nls_charset_id('AL32UTF8'))
       columns col1 number       path 'Id'
             , col2 varchar2(30) path 'Name'

Code to read xml file and display that data using sax parser

Hai
My problem I have to read a xml file and display the contents of the file on console using sax parser.

here you go

REST API: Create Deployment throwing error BadRequest (The specified configuration settings for Settings are invalid. Verify that the service configuration file is a valid XML file, and that role instance counts are specified as positive integers.)

Hi All,
We are trying to access the Create Deployment method stated below
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/ee460813
We have uploaded the Package in the blob and browsing the configuration file. We have checked trying to upload manually the package and config file in Azure portal and its working
fine.
Below is the code we have written for creating deployment where "AzureEcoystemCloudService" is our cloud service name where we want to deploy our package. I have also highlighted the XML creation
part.
byte[] bytes =
new byte[fupldConfig.PostedFile.ContentLength + 1];
            fupldConfig.PostedFile.InputStream.Read(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);
string a = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);
string base64ConfigurationFile = a.ToBase64();
X509Certificate2 certificate =
CertificateUtility.GetStoreCertificate(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["thumbprint"].ToString());
HostedService.CreateNewDeployment(certificate,
ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["SubscriptionId"].ToString(),
"2012-03-01", "AzureEcoystemCloudService", Infosys.AzureEcosystem.Entities.Enums.DeploymentSlot.staging,
"AzureEcoystemDeployment",
"http://shubhendustorage.blob.core.windows.net/shubhendustorage/Infosys.AzureEcoystem.Web.cspkg",
"AzureEcoystemDeployment", base64ConfigurationFile,
true, false);
<summary>
/// </summary>
/// <param name="certificate"></param>
/// <param name="subscriptionId"></param>
/// <param name="version"></param>
/// <param name="serviceName"></param>
/// <param name="deploymentSlot"></param>
/// <param name="name"></param>
/// <param name="packageUrl"></param>
/// <param name="label"></param>
/// <param name="base64Configuration"></param>
/// <param name="startDeployment"></param>
/// <param name="treatWarningsAsError"></param>
public static
void CreateNewDeployment(X509Certificate2 certificate,
string subscriptionId,
string version, string serviceName, Infosys.AzureEcosystem.Entities.Enums.DeploymentSlot deploymentSlot,
string name, string packageUrl,
string label, string base64Configuration,
bool startDeployment, bool treatWarningsAsError)
Uri uri = new
Uri(String.Format(Constants.CreateDeploymentUrlTemplate, subscriptionId, serviceName, deploymentSlot.ToString()));
XNamespace wa = Constants.xmlNamespace;
XDocument requestBody =
new XDocument();
String base64ConfigurationFile = base64Configuration;
String base64Label = label.ToBase64();
XElement xName = new
XElement(wa + "Name", name);
XElement xPackageUrl =
new XElement(wa +
"PackageUrl", packageUrl);
XElement xLabel = new
XElement(wa + "Label", base64Label);
XElement xConfiguration =
new XElement(wa +
"Configuration", base64ConfigurationFile);
XElement xStartDeployment =
new XElement(wa +
"StartDeployment", startDeployment.ToString().ToLower());
XElement xTreatWarningsAsError =
new XElement(wa +
"TreatWarningsAsError", treatWarningsAsError.ToString().ToLower());
XElement createDeployment =
new XElement(wa +
"CreateDeployment");
            createDeployment.Add(xName);
            createDeployment.Add(xPackageUrl);
            createDeployment.Add(xLabel);
            createDeployment.Add(xConfiguration);
            createDeployment.Add(xStartDeployment);
            createDeployment.Add(xTreatWarningsAsError);
            requestBody.Add(createDeployment);
            requestBody.Declaration =
new XDeclaration("1.0",
"UTF-8", "no");
XDocument responseBody;
RestApiUtility.InvokeRequest(
                uri, Infosys.AzureEcosystem.Entities.Enums.RequestMethod.POST.ToString(),
HttpStatusCode.Accepted, requestBody, certificate, version,
out responseBody);
<summary>
/// A helper function to invoke a Service Management REST API operation.
/// Throws an ApplicationException on unexpected status code results.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="uri">The URI of the operation to invoke using a web request.</param>
/// <param name="method">The method of the web request, GET, PUT, POST, or DELETE.</param>
/// <param name="expectedCode">The expected status code.</param>
/// <param name="requestBody">The XML body to send with the web request. Use null to send no request body.</param>
/// <param name="responseBody">The XML body returned by the request, if any.</param>
/// <returns>The requestId returned by the operation.</returns>
public static
string InvokeRequest(
Uri uri,
string method,
HttpStatusCode expectedCode,
XDocument requestBody,
X509Certificate2 certificate,
string version,
out XDocument responseBody)
            responseBody =
null;
string requestId = String.Empty;
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(uri);
            request.Method = method;
            request.Headers.Add("x-ms-Version", version);
            request.ClientCertificates.Add(certificate);
            request.ContentType =
"application/xml";
if (requestBody != null)
using (Stream requestStream = request.GetRequestStream())
using (StreamWriter streamWriter =
new StreamWriter(
                        requestStream, System.Text.UTF8Encoding.UTF8))
                        requestBody.Save(streamWriter,
SaveOptions.DisableFormatting);
HttpWebResponse response;
HttpStatusCode statusCode =
HttpStatusCode.Unused;
try
response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
catch (WebException ex)
// GetResponse throws a WebException for 4XX and 5XX status codes
                response = (HttpWebResponse)ex.Response;
try
                statusCode = response.StatusCode;
if (response.ContentLength > 0)
using (XmlReader reader =
XmlReader.Create(response.GetResponseStream()))
                        responseBody =
XDocument.Load(reader);
if (response.Headers !=
null)
                    requestId = response.Headers["x-ms-request-id"];
finally
                response.Close();
if (!statusCode.Equals(expectedCode))
throw new
ApplicationException(string.Format(
"Call to {0} returned an error:{1}Status Code: {2} ({3}):{1}{4}",
                    uri.ToString(),
Environment.NewLine,
                    (int)statusCode,
                    statusCode,
                    responseBody.ToString(SaveOptions.OmitDuplicateNamespaces)));
return requestId;
But every time we are getting the below error from the line
response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
<Error xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/windowsazure" xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<Code>BadRequest</Code>
<Message>The specified configuration settings for Settings are invalid. Verify that the service configuration file is a valid XML file, and that role instance counts are specified as positive integers.</Message>
</Error>
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Shubhendu

Please find the request XML I have found it in debug mode
<CreateDeployment xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/windowsazure">
<Name>742d0a5e-2a5d-4bd0-b4ac-dc9fa0d69610</Name>
<PackageUrl>http://shubhendustorage.blob.core.windows.net/shubhendustorage/WindowsAzure1.cspkg</PackageUrl>
<Label>QXp1cmVFY295c3RlbURlcGxveW1lbnQ=</Label>
<Configuration>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</Configuration>
<StartDeployment>true</StartDeployment>
<TreatWarningsAsError>false</TreatWarningsAsError>
</CreateDeployment>
Shubhendu G

Reading XML file and skip certain elements/attributes??

Hi folks!
Suppose I have a XML file looking like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE dvds SYSTEM "DTDtest.dtd">
<dvds>
<dvd>
<title>
Aliens
</title>
<director>
James Cameron
</director>
<format>
1.85:1
</format>
</dvd>
<dvd>
<title>
X-Men
</title>
<director>
Bryan Singer
</director>
<format>
2.35:1
</format>
</dvd>
</dvds>
In my Java application I want to read this XML file and print it on the screen (including all tags etc). So far, so good. BUT, if I want to skip certain elements, i.e. all information about the dvd 'X-Men', how am I supposed to do this? In other words, I would like my app to skip reading all information about X-Men and continue with the next <dvd>... </dvd> tag. Is this possible?
My code so far is from the XML tutorial from Sun and it looks like this:
import java.io.*;
import org.xml.sax.*;
import org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler;
import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser;
public class MyXML extends DefaultHandler
public static void main(String argv[]) {
if (argv.length != 1) {
System.err.println("Usage: cmd filename");
System.exit(1);
// Use an instance of ourselves as the SAX event handler
DefaultHandler handler = new MyXML();
// Use the default (non-validating) parser
SAXParserFactory factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
try {
// Set up output stream
out = new OutputStreamWriter(System.out, "UTF8");
// Parse the input
SAXParser saxParser = factory.newSAXParser();
saxParser.parse( new File(argv[0]), handler);
} catch (Throwable t) {
t.printStackTrace();
System.exit(0);
static private Writer out;
//===========================================================
// SAX DocumentHandler methods
//===========================================================
public void startDocument()
throws SAXException
emit("<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>");
nl();
public void endDocument()
throws SAXException
try {
nl();
out.flush();
} catch (IOException e) {
throw new SAXException("I/O error", e);
* <p>This method prints the start elements including attr.
* @param namespaceURI
* @param lName
* @param qName
* @param attrs
* @throws SAXException
public void startElement(String namespaceURI,
String lName, // local name
String qName, // qualified name
Attributes attrs)
throws SAXException
String eName = lName; // element name
if ("".equals(eName)) eName = qName; // namespaceAware = false
emit("<"+eName);
if (attrs != null) {
for (int i = 0; i < attrs.getLength(); i++) {
String aName = attrs.getLocalName(i); // Attr name
if ("".equals(aName)) aName = attrs.getQName(i);
emit(" ");
emit(aName+"=\""+attrs.getValue(i)+"\"");
emit(">");
public void endElement(String namespaceURI,
String sName, // simple name
String qName // qualified name
throws SAXException
emit("</"+qName+">");
* <p>This method prints the data between 'tags'
* @param buf
* @param offset
* @param len
* @throws SAXException
public void characters(char buf[], int offset, int len)
throws SAXException
String s = new String(buf, offset, len);
emit(s);
//===========================================================
// Utility Methods ...
//===========================================================
// Wrap I/O exceptions in SAX exceptions, to
// suit handler signature requirements
private void emit(String s)
throws SAXException
try {
out.write(s);
out.flush();
} catch (IOException e) {
throw new SAXException("I/O error", e);
// Start a new line
private void nl()
throws SAXException
String lineEnd = System.getProperty("line.separator");
try {
out.write(lineEnd);
} catch (IOException e) {
throw new SAXException("I/O error", e);
Sorry about the long listing... :)
Best regards
/Paul

A possibility that comes to mind is to create an XSLT script to do whatever it is you want - and call it from inside the program. The XSLT script can be stashed inside your .jar file by using getClass().getClassLoader().getResource("...")
- David

Read in XML file and spit out specific element

Hi all i wonder if someone could give me a hand. I've got some code (below) which reads in an xml file and spits out the contents of the file. Thats fine and dandy, however what i want to be able to do is specify which element to spit out, which i'm not sure how to do. So say i had the following xml file:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<OpenSourceQuestions>
     <question>
          <setup>A raster graphics editor</setup>
          <answerChoice1>The Gimp</answerChoice1>
          <answerChoice2>The Chimp</answerChoice2>
          <answerChoice3>The Pimp</answerChoice3>
          <answerChoice4>The Blimp</answerChoice4>
          <correctAnswer>The Gimp</correctAnswer>
     </question>
     <question>
          <setup>test question 2</setup>
          <answerChoice1>question2 answer1</answerChoice1>
          <answerChoice2>question2 answer2</answerChoice2>
          <answerChoice3>question2 answer3</answerChoice3>
          <answerChoice4>question2 answer4</answerChoice4>
          <correctAnswer>question2 answer1</correctAnswer>
     </question>
</OpenSourceQuestions>What i want to do is only spit out the xml for the first question, i.e. "A raster graphics editor" and its answers
Here is my java code for reading in and arsing the file:
void readXML(){
            try {
                 File fXmlFile = new File("MyXMLFile.xml");
                 DocumentBuilderFactory dbFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
                 DocumentBuilder dBuilder = dbFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
                 Document doc = dBuilder.parse(fXmlFile);
                 doc.getDocumentElement().normalize();
                 System.out.println("Root element :" + doc.getDocumentElement().getNodeName());
                 NodeList nList = doc.getElementsByTagName("question");
                 System.out.println("-----------------------");
                 for (int temp = 0; temp < nList.getLength(); temp++) {
                   Node nNode = nList.item(temp);
                   if (nNode.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE) {
                     Element eElement = (Element) nNode;
                     System.out.println("Question : " + getTagValue("setup",eElement));
                     System.out.println("Answer1 : " + getTagValue("answerChoice1",eElement));
                     System.out.println("Answer2 : " + getTagValue("answerChoice2",eElement));
                     System.out.println("Answer3 : " + getTagValue("answerChoice3",eElement));
                     System.out.println("Answer4 : " + getTagValue("answerChoice4",eElement));
            } catch (Exception e) {
              e.printStackTrace();
           private static String getTagValue(String sTag, Element eElement)
                 NodeList nlList= eElement.getElementsByTagName(sTag).item(0).getChildNodes();
                 Node nValue = (Node) nlList.item(0);
                 return nValue.getNodeValue();
           }

IN the time since i posted i have solved my own query!

How to accept XML file in BSP .

Hi experts,
We are implementing PAYMENT GATEWAY application in BSP,
The requirement is like we will divert our user on BANK for the payment,
at the end of payment procedure the bank will diver again that user on our site,
The moment we get user back on our site we have to give confirmation to the bank by sending some parameters,
till now everything is going fine,
But Now bank will send 1 XML file to us having some parameters for the final confirmation,
so my problem is that how to accept that page from bank and read that parameters.
is there any provision in BSP to Accept XML file from some third party on internet,
We are suppose to provide a url to bank for this final confimation,
so what this url will be if i have to accept xml file on this,
will a normal BSP url will do or we have to go for some other method .
XML file structure send by BANK.
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<Verify PER='451sdf' TAL='400' REF=ABCD123412341234
STATUS='SUCCESS'>
</Verify>

Hi Paresh,
many thousands of thankyou's for awarding me all those wonderful points. I can't begin to tell you what a magnanimous and generous benefactor you are. I hope you don't mind if I make a copy of those valuable points and frame them up on my wall so that I can forever remember their significance and the wonderful being that bequested them upon my unworthy self.
Sheesh!! Okay - sarcasm itch has been successfully scratched.
Now onto your questions.
A HTTP request handler is a class that "handles" HTTP requests. In other words it is the piece of ABAP code that gets lauched when the HTTP request comes into the ICF from the HTTP client. The online help has guidance on how to build your own at http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/72/c730dac06511d4ad310000e83539c3/frameset.htm and there are several blogs in SDN on this as well.
I mentioned you could also do it using the BSP runtime as well if you wanted. This just means building a BSP application to receive the HTTP request from your bank, extract the XML payload, and then build a XML response. The code I provided on my previous response shows how to access the HTTP request payload contents.
If you do not have anyone in your organisation who knows how to do this then I suggest you source a suitably experienced programmer to do the development for you.
I have tested the link I sent you and it works fine for me. If you are still having trouble search for "Simple Transformation" in the SAP Online Help.
Cheers
Graham Robbo

Hi, extract data from xml file and insert into another exiting xml file

i am searching code to extract data from xml file and insert into another exiting xml file by a java program. I understood it is easy to extract data from a xml file, and how ever without creating another xml file. We want to insert the extracted data into another exiting xml file. Suggestions?
1st xml file which has two lines(text1.xml)
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xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://com.unisys.com/Anid file:ANIDWS.xsd">
<xs:Person>
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://com.unisys.com/Anid file:ANIDWS.xsd">
These two lines has to be inserted in the existing another xml(text 2.xml) file(at line 3 and 4)
Regards,
bubbly

Jadz_Core wrote:
RandomAccessFile? If you know where you want to insert it.Are you sure about this? If using this, the receiving file would have to have bytes inserted that exactly match the number of bytes replaced. I'm thinking that you'll likely have to stream through the second XML with a SAX parser and copy information (or insert new information) as you stream with an XML writer of some sort.

ITunes will not accept XML File

Hello,
I have been trying to upload my normal weekly xml file and iTunes won't accept it. In the past, I copy and paste the previous entry in the xml file, make the upates (name of file, length, date, title, etc.) and then upload the updated file. Been doing that for years. Now, for the last six weeks, I have to recopy the previous week's entry, make the updates and save numerous times. Sometimes iTunes will accept it, sometimes it doesn't. Is there a limit of how many lines you can have in an xml file? When I try to validate it, http://validator.w3.org, i get the following error:
line 8185, column 2: XML parsing error: <unknown>:8185:2: mismatched tag [help]
</channel>
There is a <channel> on line 05, so this error doesn't make sense to me.
Can someone please take a look at the file and help me figure out the problem? I would appreciate it.
Here is the link: http://graceplace.org/media/audio/podcast.xml
Thank you!

The problem is just before your first 'item' tag:
<itunes:category text="Religion & Spirituality">
<itunes:category text="Christianity">
</itunes:category>
<item>
In the second line quoted above, you have not closed the tag, so that everything for the rest of the feed is seen as being within that tag - including the closing 'channel' tag, which is where the error has been flagged,
Those lines should read
<itunes:category text="Religion & Spirituality">
<itunes:category text="Christianity" />
</itunes:category>
<item>

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