Strictly speaking, if you want to handle any XML document over your stream you must use some protocol to specify how long the XML document is. According to the XML specification it is not possible to just terminate XML parsing when the last close element occurs.
The way things like SOAP work is by using transport protocols like HTTP which sends the length of the document first, then the document. Then the InputStream can just read n bytes and know its got to the end of the datagram. http://www.mail-archive.com/dom4j-user%40lists.sourceforge.net/msg01031.html e.g. this stream of XML data grams will probably break any generic solution, thats not clever enough to spot the 2nd XML declaration... <foo>document 1</foo> <!-- this is a comment in document 1--> <?xml version="1.0"?> <bar>this is document 2. Note the line above must be the first line or the parsing will fail so the comment from document 1 could well break the parse of this document </bar> James ------- http://radio.weblogs.com/0112098/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cory C. Omand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "DOM4J User Alias" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 1:36 AM Subject: [dom4j-user] Processing Multiple XML Datagrams > I am attempting to process a number of XML datagrams that are coming back from a web service. Essentially, there are multiple full XML documents being returned as one stream, and I would like to create a Document for each of them. Can anyone give me a pointer as to where I should start looking? I was thinking that some sort of SAX reader could separate each datagram into a String object, and then I could use the SAXReader.read(String) method to construct a Document object. Does anyone here have experience doing something like this? If so, I would appreciate a pointer in the right direction... > > Thanks in advance, > C. > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net emial is sponsored by: Influence the future > of Java(TM) technology. Join the Java Community > Process(SM) (JCP(SM)) program now. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;4699841;7576298;k?http://www.sun.com/javavote > _______________________________________________ > dom4j-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dom4j-user > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net emial is sponsored by: Influence the future of Java(TM) technology. Join the Java Community Process(SM) (JCP(SM)) program now. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?sunm0002en _______________________________________________ dom4j-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dom4j-user
