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Re: hi, Please tell me how we can using java to read and write to XML file for a web application : ) [modified]

abiisalwayshappy18-Dec-06 17:13

18-Dec-06 17:13

hihi i'm a newbe in Java. If u don't mind, please show me basic code to create an XML file (i understood XML structure), how to retrieve data from this file and write data to it. I need to develop my application in "Eclipse.exe".

Follow your instruction i read on "http://developerlife.com/xmljavatutorial1/default.htm" and see this coding:

import com.sun.xml.tree.*;<br />
import org.w3c.dom.*;

You must have the a String URL of the XML document before you can instantiate a DOM object from it. Assume that an XML file called AddressBook.xml is at the following URL:
http://beanfactory.com/xml/AddressBook.xml. Here is the code to create a DOM object from this URL:

try <br />
{    <br />
String url =  "http://beanfactory.com/xml/AddressBook.xml";    <br />
Document doc =         XmlDocumentBuilder.createXmlDocument(url);<br />
}<br />
catch(Exception e){}

But i can not download Sun's parser or IBM's parser.

Can u tell me another way : )

-- modified at 1:55 Tuesday 19th December, 2006

Re: hi, Please tell me how we can using java to read and write to XML file for a web application : )

George L. Jackson19-Dec-06 2:07

George L. Jackson

19-Dec-06 2:07

These parsers might be available to you:

http://xerces.apache.org/[^]

or

http://www.jclark.com/xml/[^]

Also, I am really a C++ programmer with a little Java programming knowledge. So, I cannot really give a good example using Eclipse.

"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give." --Winston Churchill

Re: hi, Please tell me how we can using java to read and write to XML file for a web application : )

abiisalwayshappy19-Dec-06 16:24

abiisalwayshappy

19-Dec-06 16:24

hihi me too. I use C as my main language, but my new project using Java and Japanese. So i must try so much Smile | :)

Arigato

XML Schema

BINOVAR17-Dec-06 17:19

BINOVAR

17-Dec-06 17:19

Hi,
Can anyone plz tell me how to use XMl SChema.Me a Beginner in Xml ..

the exact requirment is ....

I have to store the textbox values from ASP.NET in to a XML file using XML schema.

hope u guys vl help me to solve this..

Thanks in advance..

Regards
Bino Varghese

Re: XML Schema

Stefan Troschuetz17-Dec-06 21:17

Stefan Troschuetz

17-Dec-06 21:17

Simply spoken a XML Schema describes a set of elements and attributes and how these are allowed to be nested. Each XML file that claims to conform to the Schema has to follow these rules.
In your case the Schema has nothing to do with the storing process itself, but it gives you the possibility to validate whether your storage file (still) has the expected structure/content.
Out there are many tutorials on XML and XML Schema that can be easily found with google or the search engine of your choice. I suggest you read some of them, try to solve the problem on your own and come back if you get stuck at some point.

"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook

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Re: XML Schema

BINOVAR17-Dec-06 21:34

BINOVAR

17-Dec-06 21:34

Thank u Stefan 4 ur reply.
U have cleared my doubt.I take ur suggestions to start reading abt XML Schema.

Can u please suggest me some tips how to store values from a Texbox of ASP.NET page to XML .

me using SQL2005 to store values but the client wants it to be XML FILE.

so plz help me dude.

Thanking you
Bino Varghese

Re: XML Schema

Stefan Troschuetz17-Dec-06 21:51

Stefan Troschuetz

17-Dec-06 21:51

Well your best bet would be to use an instance of XmlDocument class that gives you a DOM representation of your XML file and add nodes to it according to the structure of your XML. Take a look at the MSDN documentation for the XmlDocument class which provides some examples and many links for further reading.

Re: XML Schema

BINOVAR17-Dec-06 22:00

BINOVAR

17-Dec-06 22:00

Thank you Stefan Smile | :)

xml read

vengaqua14-Dec-06 23:40

vengaqua

14-Dec-06 23:40

how to read the content of the XML File when we dont know the nodes.

Mohinder Singh

Re: xml read

Stefan Troschuetz15-Dec-06 0:18

Stefan Troschuetz

15-Dec-06 0:18

If you're using DOM to access the XML file you can simply iterate over the child nodes of a given node starting with the document's root node.

Questions Related to XML DTD

Rahithi13-Dec-06 16:05

Rahithi

13-Dec-06 16:05

Hi all,
i am new to .net technology (and also to XML). please can anyone explain me these:
1.When we are constructing an XML DTD, how can we create an external entity reference in an attribute value?
2.please can u Give some examples of XML DTDs or schemas that we generally have to work with?
3.which type of applications that can benefit from using XML?

Thanks,
Rahi

If you look at what you do not have in life, you don't have anything,
If you look at what you have in life, you have everything... "

Re: Questions Related to XML DTD

DavidNohejl15-Dec-06 11:17

DavidNohejl

15-Dec-06 11:17

Rahithi wrote:
3.which type of applications that can benefit from using XML?

XML is *great* for configuration files, and, of course, for data exchange between different applications. About every configurable application that exports or imports data will benefit from XML.

"Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony. " - Morpheus

Re: Questions Related to XML DTD

Rahithi15-Dec-06 15:30

Rahithi

15-Dec-06 15:30

Thanks for ur response. can u answer my first 2 questions please.......

If you look at what you do not have in life, you don't have anything,
If you look at what you have in life, you have everything... "

Re: Questions Related to XML DTD [modified]

George L. Jackson15-Dec-06 20:45

George L. Jackson

15-Dec-06 20:45

Is the following what you are looking for?

File hello.ent contents:
<?xml encoding="UTF-8"?>Hello

File entity.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE greetings [
<!ENTITY greet SYSTEM "hello.ent">
]>
<root>
	<say word="&greet;"/>
</root>

As for other questions see:

http://www.w3schools.com/dtd/default.asp[^]

"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give." --Winston Churchill

-- modified at 2:51 Saturday 16th December, 2006

Generate an xml file using Schema [modified]

Nnabugwu13-Dec-06 2:24

Nnabugwu

13-Dec-06 2:24

I have this schema as shown below. I need to generate an xml file that will use the schema. Note the nested nature of the schema. What i got gave error validated by client. I am in deep sh*t now need help get this working. i work with vb.net or c#

the schema

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<xs:schema id="PENCOM_REPORT"
targetNamespace="http://tempuri.org/QCR101.xsd"
xmlns="http://tempuri.org/QCR101.xsd"
xmlns:mstns="http://tempuri.org/QCR101.xsd"
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:msdata="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-msdata"
attributeFormDefault="qualified"
elementFormDefault="qualified">
<xs:element name="QCR101" msdata:IsDataSet="true" msdata:EnforceConstraints="False">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:choice maxOccurs="unbounded">
<xs:element name="REPORT_HEADER">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="REPORT_CODE" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0" />
<xs:element name="REPORT_NAME" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0" />
<xs:element name="PFA_CODE" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0" />
<xs:element name="PFA_NAME" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0" />
<xs:element name="REPORT_DATE" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0" />
<xs:element name="TOTAL_AMOUNT" type="xs:string" minOccurs="1" />
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
<xs:element name="REPORT_DATA">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="ITEMS_DATA" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="SERIAL_NO" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0" />
<xs:element name="DESCRIPTION" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0" />
<xs:element name="AMOUNT" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0" />
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
<xs:element name="REPORT_FOOTER">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="CONTACT_DETAILS" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="NAME" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0" />
<xs:element name="TEL_NO" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0" />
<xs:element name="EXTN" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0" />
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
</xs:choice>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
</xs:schema>

tanks in advance

-- modified at 11:01 Wednesday 13th December, 2006

Re: Generate an xml file using Schema

Stefan Troschuetz13-Dec-06 2:47

Stefan Troschuetz

13-Dec-06 2:47

Either enable the "Ignore HTML tags in this message" checkbox beneath the smilies or replace all < with <, cause otherwise we see neither your schema nor the xml fragment.

Re: Generate an xml file using Schema

Stefan Troschuetz15-Dec-06 21:26

Stefan Troschuetz

15-Dec-06 21:26

Ok there is the schema, but I don't see your XML file that happens to fail validation.

XPath war

Eduard Keilholz12-Dec-06 2:26

Eduard Keilholz

12-Dec-06 2:26

Hey guys, i'm fearly new to xml (espacially xpath) and need a little help here..

My XML document looks like

<br />
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?><br />
< Properties><br />
  < Property><br />
    <Number>10</Number><br />
    <Type>Type A</TypeNL><br />
    <Description>A nice description</Description><br />
  </Property><br />
</Properties><br />

(added spaces in front of the Properties and Property element, because else they appear as smiley)

I'm trying to loop through all properties (ofcourse in my xml document there are more than one properties) and would like to retrieve the number, type and description of the property. I'm writing my app in C#

<br />
XPathDocument docRegion = new XPathDocument(_XmlFilePath);<br />
XPathNavigator navRegions = docRegion.CreateNavigator();<br />
XPathNodeIterator nodeProperty = navRegions.SelectChildren("//Properties/Property", "");<br />

I would expect the SelectChildren function to return a collection of all properties in my XML document, but i'm not getting the expected values returned. Am I doing something wrong, do I need a diffrent approach or something??

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http://www.zonderpunt.nl

Re: XPath war

Stefan Troschuetz12-Dec-06 3:15

Stefan Troschuetz

12-Dec-06 3:15

Eduard Keilholz wrote:
(added spaces in front of the Properties and Property element, because else they appear as smiley)

You can enable the "Ignore HTML tags in this message" checkbox beneath the smilies to easily post XML fragments. Unfortunately this also disables the other formatting possibilities, but most times it's far more practically than inserting spaces or replacing < with <.

Eduard Keilholz wrote:
Am I doing something wrong, do I need a diffrent approach or something??

Documentation says that SelectChildren selects only directly nested children and the first parameter should be a local name and no XPath expression. So either change the first parameter to "Property" (not sure if this works cause I'm not sure whether "Properties" is the current node of the the XPathNavigator) or use the Select method which allows the use of XPath expressions.

Re: XPath war

Eduard Keilholz12-Dec-06 3:30

Eduard Keilholz

12-Dec-06 3:30

Seems to be working pretty sweet, thnx a lot!

Stefan Troschütz wrote :

You can enable the "Ignore HTML tags in this message" checkbox beneath the smilies to easily post XML fragments. Unfortunately this also disables the other formatting possibilities, but most times it's far more practically than inserting spaces or replacing < with <.

I thought this would filter all html tags which disables me to insert xml

.: I love it when a plan comes together :.
http://www.zonderpunt.nl

Re: XPath war

Stefan Troschuetz12-Dec-06 3:47

Stefan Troschuetz

12-Dec-06 3:47

I never thought about it, but the checkbox label could be misinterpreted the way you did. Maybe "Treat HTML tags and there content as plain text" would be more precise.

XML Version Question

Gupta Suraj11-Dec-06 18:31

Gupta Suraj

11-Dec-06 18:31

Hi All,

I am very new to XML domain.
I want to know the importance of "" tag.

What information xml version value(1.0) give to us.

Thanks,
Suraj

Suraj Gupta

Re: XML Version Question

Stefan Troschuetz11-Dec-06 22:28

Stefan Troschuetz

11-Dec-06 22:28

Either check the "Ignore HTML tags in this message" checkbox beneath the smilies or replace all < with <, so we can see what tag you're talking about.
The value of the version attribute tells you exactly what the name implies: the version of the XML standard the document conforms to.

Re: XML Version Question

Gupta Suraj12-Dec-06 3:47

Gupta Suraj

12-Dec-06 3:47

Thanks alot...

Suraj

Suraj Gupta

XML

osama_bkr10-Dec-06 22:59

osama_bkr

10-Dec-06 22:59

how can i search within XML document.

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