Thanks James,
Glad it was just me being stupid and not anything fundamental!
Regards,
Thomas.
At 09:14 18/06/2001 +0100, James Strachan wrote:
>Hi Thomas
>
>This is a fairly common gotcha people have been hitting so I've patched the
>code to fix it once and for all.
>
>Using the version of the code you have, the quick fix is to add a call to
>flush() as follows:-
>
> > class ParseTest {
> > static public void main (String args[]) {
> > try {
> > if (args.length == 0) {
> > System.out.println ("Error: must specify XML file.");
> > }
> > else {
> > SAXReader reader = new SAXReader (false); // No
> > validation.
> > Document doc = reader.read (args[0]);
> > XMLWriter writer = new XMLWriter(System.out,
> > OutputFormat.createPrettyPrint());
> > writer.write (doc);
>
> writer.flush();
>
> > // System.out.println (doc.asXML());
> > }
> > }
> > catch (Exception e) {
> > System.out.println ("Exception: " + e.getMessage());
> > }
> > }
> > }
> >
>
>The longer explanation is that the XMLWriter internally uses a Writer
>instance when outputting text. If you create an XMLWriter from an
>OutputStream (such as System.out) then internally it creates a
>BufferedWriter containing a OuputStreamWriter.
>
>I've patched the code such that when an OutputStream is used, the XMLWriter
>knows it should call flush() on the BufferedWriter to force any output
>remaining through to the underlying OutputStream.
>
>So using the current CVS image, this problem should finally go away.
>
>(Toby, we might want to change your cookbook to remove the recommendation
>that people call flush() after writing a Document).
>
>
>James
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Thomas Nichols" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "dom4j-dev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2001 12:57 AM
>Subject: [dom4j-dev] More output questions
>
>
> > Good day,
> > I'm having some peculiar problems with large files. I do the following:
> >
> > XMLWriter writer = new XMLWriter(System.out,
> > OutputFormat.createPrettyPrint());
> >
> >
> > For small files, all works fine. For the biggest, I get errors -- the
> > output is abruptly truncated, in the middle of an element: as if someone
> > has taken a pair of scissors and chopped the listing in half. For a given
> > document, this happens always in the same place, and is unaffected by heap
> > settings (-Xmx150M has the same result as -Xmx 16M).
> >
> > Replacing System.out with
> > new BufferedOutputStream (new FileOutputStream ("ParseTest.out"))
> > has no effect - the file is truncated in exactly the same place.
> >
> >
> > FWIW, at startup I get the following message printed to stdout:
> > Warning: Error occurred using JAXP to load a SAXParser. Will use Aelfred
> > instead
> >
> > Bizarrely, System.out.println (doc.asXML()) works fine, except for CRLF/LF
> > issues.
> >
> > How can I track this truncation problem down - any suggestions?
> >
> > System: dom4j-coming-soon-0.5 daily snapshot grabbed on 2001-06-15
> > Mandrake Linux 7.2, Sun JDK 1.3.0_02, 256Mb RAM, AMD Duron 800 (etc
>etc...)
> > CLASSPATH:
> >
>/home/thomasn/src/dx2/classes:/usr/local/dom4j-coming-soon-0.5/dom4j-full.ja
>r:/usr/local/jdom-b6/build/jdom.jar:/usr/local/jdom-b6/lib/xerces.jar:/usr/l
>ocal/jdom-b6:/usr/local/jakarta-log4j-1.0.4/classes:/home/thomasn/src:/usr/l
>ocal/enhydra4.0/lib/servlet.jar
> >
> > Any suggestions would be very welcome.
> > Thanks,
> > Thomas.
> >
> >
> > ==== ParseTest.java ====
> >
> >
> > package test;
> >
> > import org.dom4j.io.*;
> > import org.dom4j.*;
> > import org.dom4j.tree.*;
> >
> > class ParseTest {
> > static public void main (String args[]) {
> > try {
> > if (args.length == 0) {
> > System.out.println ("Error: must specify XML file.");
> > }
> > else {
> > SAXReader reader = new SAXReader (false); // No
> > validation.
> > Document doc = reader.read (args[0]);
> > XMLWriter writer = new XMLWriter(System.out,
> > OutputFormat.createPrettyPrint());
> > writer.write (doc);
> > // System.out.println (doc.asXML());
> > }
> > }
> > catch (Exception e) {
> > System.out.println ("Exception: " + e.getMessage());
> > }
> > }
> > }
> >
> >
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