Xerces-J Parser Problems

Hi, im knew to Java and r currently studying XML. I installed the Java 2 SDK - which went fine & the book told me to install Xerces-J Parser. I followed instructions, i.e setting classpath and path in autoexec.bat, but when i want to test it - it says NoClassDefFoundError...
The book told me to change to xerces directory and then typing in java sax.SAXCount data/personal.xml - v.
Also, the book uses Xerces-1_2_3 & im using Xerces-1_4_4. Can i just ignore this & continue or will i have problems with other stuff as well?
Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Never mind - fixed it myself :)

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Please find the code below
types: begin of ty-itab,
            field(4096),
          end of ty-itab.
Data:
g_ixml                       TYPE REF TO if_ixml,
g_ixmldocument               TYPE REF TO if_ixml_document,
g_ixmlstreamfactory          TYPE REF TO if_ixml_stream_factory,
g_ixmlstream                 TYPE REF TO if_ixml_istream,
g_ixmlparser              TYPE REF TO if_ixml_parser,
g_ixmlnodemainlist        TYPE REF TO if_ixml_node_list,
g_ixmlnodelistmainelement TYPE REF TO if_ixml_node_list,
g_sxmldata                TYPE string,
g_ixmlnode                TYPE REF TO if_ixml_node.
DATA: wa_xmltab TYPE xstring,
            itab type table of ty-itab.
OPEN DATASET l_file IN BINARY MODE FOR INPUT MESSAGE v_msg.
READ DATASET l_file INTO wa_xmltab.
PERFORM f_create_xmltable USING wa_xmltab
                              CHANGING v_msg.
IF NOT v_msg IS INITIAL.
      msg = v_msg.
      EXIT.
    ELSE.
      itab[] = it_xmldata[].
    ENDIF.
CLOSE DATASET l_file.
Subroutine to convert xstring to char type ITAB.
FORM f_create_xmltable USING value(pi_inputxmlstring) TYPE xstring
                       CHANGING v_msg.
*-- create the main factory
g_ixml = cl_ixml=>create( ).
*-- create the initial document
g_ixmldocument = g_ixml->create_document( ).
*-- create the stream factory
g_ixmlstreamfactory = g_ixml->create_stream_factory( ).
*create input stream
g_ixmlstream = g_ixmlstreamfactory->create_istream_xstring( string =
pi_inputxmlstring ).
*-- create the parser
g_ixmlparser = g_ixml->create_parser( stream_factory =
g_ixmlstreamfactory
                                  istream        = g_ixmlstream
                                  document       = g_ixmldocument ).
*-- parse the stream
IF g_ixmlparser->parse( ) NE 0.
*if parser cannot be created then give error exit
    IF g_ixmlparser->num_errors( ) NE 0.
      EXIT.
    ENDIF.
ENDIF.
*-- we don't need the stream any more, so let's close it...
CALL METHOD g_ixmlstream->close( ).
CLEAR g_ixmlstream.
*get the number of main nodes of the XML document
g_ixmlnodemainlist = g_ixmldocument->get_children( ).
*set number of elemtns
g_inummainelements = 0.
g_imainelementsctr = 0.
g_inummainelements = g_ixmlnodemainlist->get_length( ).
g_ifirstlevelctr = 0.
*loop through the document till all have nodes have been covered.
WHILE g_ifirstlevelctr LT g_inummainelements.
*get the first node
    g_ixmlnode = g_ixmlnodemainlist->get_item( g_ifirstlevelctr ).
*check the type of node
    g_isnodeelement = g_ixmlnode->get_type( ).
*if node is not of type Element then continue
*because we have got to read only text from element nodes.
    IF g_isnodeelement NE c_nodeelement.
      g_ifirstlevelctr = g_ifirstlevelctr + 1.
      CONTINUE.
    ENDIF.
*get nodes of the element just found.
    g_ixmlnodelistmainelement = g_ixmlnode->get_children( ).
*get number of children of main element
    g_inumchildelements = g_ixmlnodelistmainelement->get_length( ).
*loop trhough the number of children
    WHILE g_imainelementsctr LT g_inumchildelements.
      g_ixmlnodemainelement = g_ixmlnodelistmainelement->get_item(
    g_imainelementsctr ).
*get type of node
      g_isnodeelement = g_ixmlnodemainelement->get_type( ).
      IF g_isnodeelement NE c_nodeelement.
        g_imainelementsctr = g_imainelementsctr + 1.
        CONTINUE.
      ENDIF.
*get name of the node.
      g_selementvalue = g_ixmlnodemainelement->get_name( ).
*get children of node
      g_childnodelist = g_ixmlnodemainelement->get_children( ).
      g_inumchildren = g_childnodelist->get_length( ).
      g_ichildelementcounter = 0.
*while there are number of children of node.loop through
      WHILE g_ichildelementcounter LT g_inumchildren.
*get the child node
        g_childnode = g_childnodelist->get_item(
g_ichildelementcounter ).
*check the type of node
        g_isnodeelement = g_childnode->get_type( ).
*if node is not of element type continue
        IF g_isnodeelement NE c_nodeelement.
          g_ichildelementcounter = g_ichildelementcounter + 1.
          CONTINUE.
        ENDIF.
*otherwise get element name
        g_selementname = g_childnode->get_name( ).
*get value stored in this node.
        g_selementvalue = g_childnode->get_value( ).
        g_numelem = g_inumchildren - 1.
        IF g_ichildelementcounter EQ g_numelem.
          CONCATENATE: g_slinedata g_selementvalue
                  INTO g_slinedata.
        ELSE.
*      store the value of noide in delimiter ~ line
*      Check for Invalid characters in file
            IF g_selementvalue CA '&'.
              REPLACE ALL OCCURRENCES OF '&' IN g_selementvalue WITH
            endif.
*if value contains delimiter then error
            IF g_selementvalue CA '~'.
              V_MSG = text-003.
              EXIT.
            ELSE.
              CONCATENATE: g_slinedata g_selementvalue '~' .
              INTO g_slinedata.
            ENDIF.
        ENDIF.
*continue
        g_ichildelementcounter = g_ichildelementcounter + 1.
      ENDWHILE.
      g_ichildelementcounter = 0.
*increment the main element counter by one to go to the next node
      g_imainelementsctr = g_imainelementsctr + 1.
*move the current delimiter line creted to internal table to be given
*back to the calling program
      MOVE g_slinedata TO wa_xmldata-data.
      APPEND wa_xmldata TO it_xmldata.
      MOVE '' TO g_slinedata.
      MOVE '' TO wa_xmldata-data.
    ENDWHILE.
*increment counter to move to hte next node.
    g_ifirstlevelctr = g_ifirstlevelctr + 1.
    g_imainelementsctr = 0.
ENDWHILE.
ENDFORM.                    "f_create_xmltable
XML structure
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ABCInbound xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="C:\XYZSchema\ABCInbound.xsd">
<HH>
<RecordType>HH</RecordType>
<Source>ABC</Source>
<Destination>XYZ</Destination>
<TimeStamp>20050909220546</TimeStamp>
</HH>
<BH>
<RecordType>BH</RecordType>
<DocType>AB</DocType>
<Reference>2205516125</Reference>
<DocumentDate>20080909</DocumentDate>
<PostingDate></PostingDate>
<CompanyCode>ABC</CompanyCode>
<Currency>INR</Currency>
<ExchangeRate>1.0000</ExchangeRate>
<Park></Park>
<ItemNumber>2</ItemNumber>
</BH>
<BL>
<RecordType>BL</RecordType>
<Reference>2205516125</Reference>
<RefLineItem>1</RefLineItem>
<AcctType>K</AcctType>
<DrCrIndicator>H</DrCrIndicator>
<Account>01000003</Account>
<Amount>364.00</Amount>
<VendorName-1>TOM & JERRY IS MY</VendorName-1>
<VendorName-2> NAME TO BE PAID</VendorName-2>
<VendorName-3>1987566Z</VendorName-3>
<VendorName-4>22</VendorName-4>
<Street>UCX STREET</Street>
<City>ROAD 4</City>
<PostalCode>515004</PostalCode>
<Country>IND</Country>
<ContactPerson></ContactPerson>
<AlternatePayeeCode></AlternatePayeeCode>
<AlternatePayeeName-1></AlternatePayeeName-1>
<AlternatePayeeName-2></AlternatePayeeName-2>
<AlternatePayeeName-3></AlternatePayeeName-3>
<PaymentTerms></PaymentTerms>
<BaselineDate></BaselineDate>
<PaymentMethods></PaymentMethods>
<Allocation></Allocation>
<LineItemText>item text</LineItemText>
<TaxCode></TaxCode>
<TaxAmount>0.00</TaxAmount>
<WHTaxCode></WHTaxCode>
<WHTaxbase>0.00</WHTaxbase>
<Fund></Fund>
<FundCenter></FundCenter>
<CostCenter></CostCenter>
<InternalOrder></InternalOrder>
<TaxAutomatically></TaxAutomatically>
<SpecialGLIndicator></SpecialGLIndicator>
</BL>
<TT>
<RecordType>TT</RecordType>
<TotalRecords>1</TotalRecords>
<TotalValue>222</TotalValue>
</TT>
</ABCInbound>
when the above xml file is read and populated into ITAB, for element vendorname-2 which has a space in first position , that space is ignored.
This is being used for a FB01 posting and vendor is paid based on Name1+Name2 printed on cheque and due to the space ignoring problem, the vendor name is displayed wrongly thus causing problems.
I appreciate if someone could guide me thru and help me in solving this problem.
How to preserve the leading or trailing space.
g_selementvalue = g_childnode->get_value( ).
when i check g_selementvalue, space is ignored.
i will be greateful if someone could guide me through.
Regards,
Simha
Edited by: Simha on Dec 11, 2008 10:49 AM

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