Xml document parser

I have the java source code for a SAX compiler to parse my XML document.
To make this work I was told to include the following in my classpath: -
�     j2sdk1.4.1_01/jaxp-1.1/jaxp.jar
�     j2sdk1.4.1_01/jaxp-1.1/xalan.jar
�     j2sdk1.4.1_01/jaxp-1.1/crimson.jar
by the way I have got j2sdk1.4.1_01!!
I have also got another java file which is a java class that calls my parser.java file. When I compile the java class file I get weird errors such as:
"Registry key 'Software\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment\CurrentVersion' has value '1.3', but '1.4' is required.
ERROR: could not find java.dll
ERROR: could not find Java 2 Runtime Environemnt.
This is the code for my java class:
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
public class testXML {
public static void main(final String[] pArgs) throws IOException {
new CustomerParser("flock.xml");
I'm pretty new to this parsing business, and Im really not sure what to do.
1)is it my java software playing up?
2)or is it my classpath?
3)or what?
hope someone can help, Jim.

Find the old version of java.exe that's running and get rid of it. (or remove the pathe entry)

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I've a sample program that creates a XML document with a single element book having Norwegian characters. Encoding is UTF-8. When i parse the XML document and try to access the value of that element then ? are shown for Norwegian characters. XML document file name is "Sample.xml"
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            DocumentBuilder docBuilder = dbfac.newDocumentBuilder();
            Document doc = docBuilder.newDocument();
            Element root = doc.createElement("root");
            root.setAttribute("value", "Á á Ą ą ä É é Ę");
            doc.appendChild(root);
            TransformerFactory transfac = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
            Transformer trans = transfac.newTransformer();
            trans.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.OMIT_XML_DECLARATION, "yes");
            trans.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT, "yes");
            trans.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.ENCODING, "UTF-8");
            //create string from xml tree
            java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream();
            StreamResult result = new StreamResult(baos);
            DOMSource source = new DOMSource(doc);
            trans.transform(source, result);
            writeToFile("Sample.xml", baos.toByteArray());
            InputSource is = new InputSource(new java.io.ByteArrayInputStream(readFile("Sample.xml")));
            is.setEncoding("UTF-8");
            DocumentBuilder obj_db = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder();
            Document obj_doc = obj_db.parse(is);
            obj_doc.normalize();
            System.out.println("Value is : " + new String(((Element) obj_doc.getElementsByTagName("root").item(0)).getAttribute("value").getBytes()));writeFile() - Writes the document bytes in Sample.xml file
readFile() - Reads the Sample.xml file
When i run this program XML editor shows the characters correctly but Java code output is: Á á ? ? ä É é ?
What's the problematic area in my java code. I didn't get any help from any source. Please suggest me the solution of this problem.
Thanx in advance.

Hi,
I'm using JBuilder 2005 and i mentioned encoding UTF-8 for saving Java source files and also for compilation. I've modified my source code also. But the problem persists. After applying changing the dumped sample.xml file doesn't display these characters correctly in IE, but earlier it was displaying it correctly at IE.
Modified code is:
DocumentBuilderFactory dbfac = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
            DocumentBuilder docBuilder = dbfac.newDocumentBuilder();
            Document doc = docBuilder.newDocument();
            Element root = doc.createElement("root");
            root.setAttribute("value", "Á á Ą ą ä É é Ę");
            doc.appendChild(root);
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            java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream();
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            XMLSerializer s = new XMLSerializer(osw, output);
            s.asDOMSerializer();
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            writeToFile("Sample5.xml", baos.toByteArray());
            InputSource o = new InputSource(new java.io.ByteArrayInputStream(readFile("Sample5.xml")));
            o.setEncoding("UTF-8");
            com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.DOMParser obj_parser = new com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.DOMParser();
            obj_parser.parse(o);
            Document obj_doc = obj_parser.getDocument();
            System.out.println("Value : " + new String(((Element) obj_doc.getElementsByTagName("root").item(0)).getAttribute("value").getBytes()));I'm hanged on this issue. Can u please provide me the code snippet that works with these characters or suggest solution.
Thanx

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Hi. I've been successful with parsing a TAG in XML Document stored in CLOB using PL/SQL XML Parser.
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<library>
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<year>2000</year>
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I need a function that will accept an Input which is the aggregate name and will return the aggregate value.
With the sample XML above, say the input is 'VIDEO', the function will return :
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xmlparser.parsebuffer(parser,xmlout) ;
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EXCEPTION
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Has anyone a good link or an example how to decode and store an XML document into an oracle8i database.
I' ve found only good things for oracle9i.
Thank you
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This one uses external OS files to pase, but could be easily converted to
use CLOB or VARCHAR2 string for parsing XML documents.
IF you wanted to use CLOB to store and manipulate xml documents you can use XMLParser and XMLDom
packages along with the DBMS_LOB package to do that.
-- This file demonstates a simple use of the parser and DOM API.
-- The XML file that is given to the application is parsed and the
-- elements and attributes in the document are printed.
-- The use of setting the parser options is demonstrated.
set serveroutput on;
create or replace procedure domsample(dir varchar2, inpfile varchar2,
errfile varchar2) is
p xmlparser.parser;
doc xmldom.DOMDocument;
-- prints elements in a document
procedure printElements(doc xmldom.DOMDocument) is
nl xmldom.DOMNodeList;
len number;
n xmldom.DOMNode;
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nl xmldom.DOMNodeList;
len1 number;
len2 number;
n xmldom.DOMNode;
e xmldom.DOMElement;
nnm xmldom.DOMNamedNodeMap;
attrname varchar2(100);
attrval varchar2(100);
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-- get all elements
nl := xmldom.getElementsByTagName(doc, '*');
len1 := xmldom.getLength(nl);
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n := xmldom.item(nl, j);
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for i in 0..len2-1 loop
n := xmldom.item(nnm, i);
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attrval := xmldom.getNodeValue(n);
dbms_output.put(' ' || attrname || ' = ' || attrval);
end loop;
dbms_output.put_line('');
end if;
end loop;
end printElementAttributes;
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xmlparser.setValidationMode(p, FALSE);
xmlparser.setErrorLog(p, dir || '/' || errfile);
xmlparser.setBaseDir(p, dir);
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xmlparser.parse(p, dir || '/' || inpfile);
-- get document
doc := xmlparser.getDocument(p);
-- Print document elements
dbms_output.put('The elements are: ');
printElements(doc);
-- Print document element attributes
dbms_output.put_line('The attributes of each element are: ');
printElementAttributes(doc);
-- deal with exceptions
exception
when xmldom.INDEX_SIZE_ERR then
raise_application_error(-20120, 'Index Size error');
when xmldom.DOMSTRING_SIZE_ERR then
raise_application_error(-20120, 'String Size error');
when xmldom.HIERARCHY_REQUEST_ERR then
raise_application_error(-20120, 'Hierarchy request error');
when xmldom.WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR then
raise_application_error(-20120, 'Wrong doc error');
when xmldom.INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR then
raise_application_error(-20120, 'Invalid Char error');
when xmldom.NO_DATA_ALLOWED_ERR then
raise_application_error(-20120, 'Nod data allowed error');
when xmldom.NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR then
raise_application_error(-20120, 'No mod allowed error');
when xmldom.NOT_FOUND_ERR then
raise_application_error(-20120, 'Not found error');
when xmldom.NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR then
raise_application_error(-20120, 'Not supported error');
when xmldom.INUSE_ATTRIBUTE_ERR then
raise_application_error(-20120, 'In use attr error');
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