Paul Beer wrote:
> I am trying to load an xml packet off a local directory and display it in a
> jsp template... to no avail... could someone lok at this code and let me
> know why it displays nothing ? when i do a string.length() i get 3451 so I
> know it is reading the stream... I just cant output it in JSP.
>
> thanks,
> paul
>
> code:
>
It might help if you actually read in the data you are talking about, as well as
closed the input file :-).
>
> File file = new File("./public_html/xml/cc.xml");
> FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(file);
> byte[] data = new byte[fis.available()];
>
fis.read(data);
fis.close();
> String strData = new String(data);
> out.println(strData);
>
One other thing you should do is use a FileReader instead of a FileINputStream,
since you are dealing with text. Otherwise, you're likely to have problems with
unusual character sets.
Craig McClanahan
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