Problem in Coverting XML String into Document

sheetm · April 27th, 2007, 05:37 AM

Hi,

I am getting some problem while parsing a String XML in to Document object.

CODE :

public static Document converDocument(String xml){

DocumentBuilderFactory factory=DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder builder = null;
try {
        builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
  } catch (ParserConfigurationException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
  }
Document document = null;
try {
  document = builder.parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(xml)));
  System.out.println("Document is after parsing ====>>>"+document);
} catch (SAXException e1) {
    // TODO Auto-generated catch block
  e1.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e1) {
    e1.printStackTrace();
}
return document;

}

The xml which I am passing is :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<note>
<to>Tove</to>
<from>Jani</from>
<heading>Reminder</heading>
<body>abc</body>
</note>

It is giving the document as null;
Can anybody please help?

Regards,
sheeetal.

sheetal

mhkay · April 27th, 2007, 06:34 AM

You're getting a problem, you say? What are its symptoms?

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

sheetm · April 27th, 2007, 06:44 AM

I am getting the null value when i am trying to parse the XML String into Document Object.

Is there any other way to parse the XML into Document Object.

sheetal

mhkay · April 27th, 2007, 06:52 AM

I don't think builder.parse() should ever return null. What implementation of DocumentBuilderFactory are you using?

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

sheetm · April 27th, 2007, 07:11 AM

From the following package i am using the DocumentBuilderFactory

javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;

whatever the code i have written is it correct for covereting the xml into document

sheetal

mhkay · April 27th, 2007, 09:15 AM

javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory is an interface not a class. Please check what implementation you are using (use getClass().getName() on the result).

I can't see anything wrong with your code. But of course that doesn't mean it's right!

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference