Got that one already :)
James
On 11/27/06, Wax, Ed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
James,
Adding trim() to the getNodeValue() method will resolve your white space
issues as well, as opposed to any parser configuration setting.
if (node.getNodeValue().*trim().*equalsIgnoreCase("true"))
Ed
-----Original Message-----
*From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On
Behalf Of *James Ostheimer
*Sent:* Monday, November 27, 2006 10:58 AM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* Re: Problem with Xerces DOM (newbie)
Thanks to Peter and Ed for the reply they helped me figure out that I
shouldn't have trusted the debugger in this case!
I got it working now!
James
On 11/27/06, Peter McCracken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Hi James,
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 27/11/2006 11:27:20 AM:
> > 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.
>
> I tried out the code sample you provided (with the exception that I hard
> coded the String variable instead of using a WebResponse object) and it
> worked fine for me, using Xerces 2.9.0. I assume you've verified that
> the "text" variable contains the XML that you expect it to contain? Have
> you tried executing the piece of code that you sent as a standalone
> application to verify that it's really that section that's causing the
> problem?
>
> > 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.
>
> One caveat is that the NodeList object will look like it is empty in a
> debugger when you first get it. For performance reasons, Xerces defers
> filling the NodeList until you actually ask for nodes from the list. If you
> call getLength() on the NodeList, it will walk the entire DOM tree and fully
> populate the list. If you call item(N) without calling getLength(), Xerces
> will find only the first N items without parsing the entire XML tree. This
> is useful in cases where you're processing a large DOM tree but only want
> the first occurrence of a particular tag.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Peter McCracken
> XML Parser Development
> IBM Toronto Lab
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
