XLS with XML containing JSP tags dom4j

azudio · May 24th, 2006, 07:09 AM

Hi All,

Hope this is the right place to ask and somebody could help.

I've got an XML file which is similar to XHTML but also has jps tags ( c:if test="blah...") embedded. When I do my transformation I get:

org.dom4j.DocumentException: Error on line 439 of document:
The prefix "c" for element "c:if" is not bound. Nested exception: The prefix "c" for element "c:if" is not bound.
at org.dom4j.io.SAXReader.read(SAXReader.java:482)
blah...

Below is a snippet from my method that does the conversion from a string into a Document object..

Code:

286  // Read file as a string
287  String fileAsString = FileUtils.readFileToString(mySourceFile,"utf-8");
288
289  // Convert to a Document object
290  Document srcDocument = DocumentHelper.parseText(fileAsString);

My source XML looks a little like this..

Code:

<div id="items">
    <c:if test="${not empty tariffs}">
        do something
    </c:if>
</div>

Anybody got any idea?

Many thanks,

Adam.

mhkay · May 24th, 2006, 07:49 AM

My source XML looks a little like this..

Code:

<div id="items">
    <c:if test="${not empty tariffs}">
        do something
    </c:if>
</div>

Like the error message says, that's not namespace-well-formed XML because the "c:" prefix hasn't been declared.

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

azudio · May 24th, 2006, 08:32 AM

Michael,

Doh! That worked !

I put the following onto my root element and it worked:

xmlns:c="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" xmlns:tiles="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core"

Still a bit new to this.

Thanks for the quick reply.

Adam