Try it with a StringReader instead of a byte array input stream, and let us know the result (perhaps an encoding issue?)
- Rick ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Ostheimer Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 11:27 AM To: j-users@xerces.apache.org Subject: Problem with Xerces DOM (newbie) Hi- I have been using java for quite a while, but this is my first experience with the DOM parser and Xerces. My issue is that I can't seem to get the parser to parse a very simple XML file. Here is the XML (pulled directly from the debugger): <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <LoginResults> <Accepted> true </Accepted> </LoginResults> Here is the code I am trying to execute: protected Document parseXmlFile(WebResponse response) throws ParserConfigurationException, IOException, SAXException{ //get the factory DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance (); //dbf.setValidating(true); // dbf.setIgnoringElementContentWhitespace(true); //dbf.setNamespaceAware(true); //Using factory get an instance of document builder DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder(); String text = response.getText().trim(); ByteArrayInputStream bais = new ByteArrayInputStream(text.getBytes()); //parse using builder to get DOM representation of the XML file InputSource source = new InputSource(bais); source.setEncoding("UTF-8"); Document dom = db.parse(bais); Element docEle = dom.getDocumentElement(); //get a nodelist of elements NodeList nl = docEle.getElementsByTagName("Accepted"); return dom; //return db.parse(source); } The NodeList nl, is empty (verified by eclipse debugger). This I just do not uderstand, the XML is well-formed and very simple and I should be able to get something by tag name even without a DTD. I do have whitespace issues of course, and I understand that. Also note that this XML string works fine on the client side javascript (XML is produced by a servlet). Does anyone have any idea what I am doing wrong? I worked on this for 8 hours yesterday and just cannot get the DOM parser to work for this very simple XML. I am using the latest version of Xerces 2.9.0. James
