XML structure from Form Based Published Document

Question

Hi experts,
I want to read the contents of a Form Based XML Document to my Web Dynpro project. I'm using this code to do so:
    wdContext.currentContextElement().setText(wdContext.currentTableContentElement().getObjectName());
    readXML(wdContext.currentTableContentElement().getLink());
IWDClientUser wdClientUser = WDClientUser.getCurrentUser();
com.sap.security.api.IUser sapUser = wdClientUser.getSAPUser();
//create an ep5 user from the retrieved user
com.sapportals.portal.security.usermanagement.IUser ep5User = WPUMFactory.getUserFactory().getEP5User(sapUser);
IResourceContext context = new ResourceContext(ep5User);
/Specify the path of ur document here./
RID pathRID = RID.getRID(wdContext.currentTableContentElement().getLink());
IResource resource = ResourceFactory.getInstance().getResource(pathRID,context);
InputStream in;
in = resource.getContent().getInputStream();
ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
byte[] buffer = new byte[4096];
int bytesread = 0;
while ((bytesread = in.read(buffer)) != -1) {
out.write(buffer, 0, bytesread);
String myData = out.toString();
wdContext.currentContextElement().setText2(myData);
The problem now is: When I'm reading the contents of a Form Based XML Document I'm getting HTML code from the document.
When I try to do the same with an XML document that wasn't created by a XML Form, I get the contents in default XML markup.
My question is: how can I get the Form Based XML Document to my Web Dynpro Project in default XML markup?
Thanks,
Edwin van der Palen

Answer 1

Hi E.,
I guess this an XML namespace issue. I'm creating XmlForms-style documents and had to add an XML namespace to my root element to make them visible as such:
Namespace xf = Namespace.getNamespace("xf", "http://www.sapportals.com/wcm/app/xmlforms");
root.addNamespaceDeclaration(xf);
So what I'd suggest to you is reading out the IResource and treating the content as XML:
Document document = new  SAXBuilder().build(content.getInputStream());
Element root = document.getRootElement();
Namespace xf = Namespace.getNamespace("xf", "http://www.sapportals.com/wcm/app/xmlforms");
root.removeNamespaceDeclaration(xf);
Hope this helps!
regards,
Christian