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------------------------------------------------------ Tref Gare Development Consultant Areeba Level 19/114 William St, Melbourne VIC 3000 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: +61 3 9642 5553 fax: +61 3 9642 1335 website: http://www.areeba.com.au ------------------------------------------------------ "This email is intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above and contains information that is confidential. No confidentiality is waived or lost by any mis-transmission. If you received this correspondence in error, please notify the sender and immediately delete it from your system. You must not disclose, copy or rely on any part of this correspondence if you are not the intended recipient. Any communication directed to clients via this message is subject to our Agreement and relevant Project Schedule. Any information that is transmitted via email which may offend may have been sent without knowledge or the consent of Areeba." ------------------------------------------------------ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 20 November 2002 4:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: XML parser Hi, In my effort to parse an XML file and pull out data from it's elements where I may maninpulate them, I have downloaded the Xerces.ZIP (which incidentally is 4.8 MB - expanded to 22!), extracted it to webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/lib/. Is this the correct location? If not, where should it reside? Looking at the rest of the documentation I cannot find any syntax simple enough to what I want to do. What I want to do is (real simple now!), I have an XML file: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?> <root> <a_tag>1st selection</a_tag> <a_tag>2nd selection</a_tag> </root> in a JSP I want to parse the file, iterate through it extracting the element values. Perhaps storing them in a array. So I have 3 factors here, the one (desired) not present in this email being the JSP syntax to parse and get hold of the data. Ie: <%@ page language="java" %> <html>.. <% parse and acquire contents of a_tag %> ..</html> I am obviously simplifying as much as possible here. Again, all input apreciated. Paul. ;-) Yep and yep For usage in Tomcat the process of "installation" is just as you say.. manually copy the jar file into either your webapps lib folder or into the global lib folder so that all your different webapps can access it. Generally it's advisable to copy it into your webapp's lib folder as this makes your webapp deployable as a standalone application (ie: no external dependencies). <yep 2> the full download includes files documentation (yep, pretty much the website docs but available offline), jar files and demos for a wide range of applications. Mind you mine (2.2.0) is only 4.8 meg.. not 22 so I can't say for sure that you haven't got hold of something extra as well. It's then a case of finding out what to do with the thing you've now got access to. To look into that further, have a look at the different demos provided and see if they give you what you want. If you find yourself still struggling a more specific question about what you're trying to achieve and where it's going wrong may evoke a more useful response. G'luck. Tref -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
