Hi-
I have been using java for quite a while, but this is my first experience
with the DOM parser and Xerces. My issue is that I can't seem to get the
parser to parse a very simple XML file. Here is the XML (pulled directly
from the debugger):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<LoginResults>
<Accepted>
true
</Accepted>
</LoginResults>
Here is the code I am trying to execute:
protected Document parseXmlFile(WebResponse response) throws
ParserConfigurationException, IOException, SAXException{
//get the factory
DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
//dbf.setValidating(true);
// dbf.setIgnoringElementContentWhitespace(true);
//dbf.setNamespaceAware(true);
//Using factory get an instance of document builder
DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
String text = response.getText().trim();
ByteArrayInputStream bais = new ByteArrayInputStream(
text.getBytes());
//parse using builder to get DOM representation of the XML file
InputSource source = new InputSource(bais);
source.setEncoding("UTF-8");
Document dom = db.parse(bais);
Element docEle = dom.getDocumentElement();
//get a nodelist of elements
NodeList nl = docEle.getElementsByTagName("Accepted");
return dom;
//return db.parse(source);
}
The NodeList nl, is empty (verified by eclipse debugger). This I just do
not uderstand, the XML is well-formed and very simple and I should be able
to get something by tag name even without a DTD. I do have whitespace
issues of course, and I understand that. Also note that this XML string
works fine on the client side javascript (XML is produced by a servlet).
Does anyone have any idea what I am doing wrong? I worked on this for 8
hours yesterday and just cannot get the DOM parser to work for this very
simple XML. I am using the latest version of Xerces 2.9.0.
James
