miamicane99 wrote:
> I'd like to use an XML file as a dictionary for an NLP project I'm working
> on. I currently have a "Words" class which is a vector of "Word" objects.
>
> public class Words {
>
> private Vector<Word> vect;
>
> public Words(){
> vect = new Vector<Word>();
>
> }
>
> public void add(Word w){
> vect.add(w);
> }
>
> The "Word" class looks something like this:
>
> public class Word {
>
> private String name;
> private String partOfSpeech;
> private String category;
> private String definition;
> }
>
> I have managed to write the "Words" vector to XML using XStream by using
> this code:
>
> public class Writer {
>
> public static void main(String[] args) {
>
> XStream xstream = new XStream();
> xstream.alias("words", Words.class);
> xstream.alias("word", Word.class);
> xstream.addImplicitCollection(Words.class, "vect");
>
> Words vect = new Words();
> vect.add(new Word("dog", "noun", "animal", "a domesticated canid,
> Canis familiaris, bred in many varieties"));
> vect.add(new Word("cat", "noun", "animal", "a small domesticated
> carnivore, Felis domestica or F. catus, bred in a number of
> varieties"));
>
>
> try {
> FileOutputStream fs = new FileOutputStream("c:/dictionary.xml");
> xstream.toXML(vect, fs);
> } catch (FileNotFoundException e1) {
> e1.printStackTrace();
> }
>
> }
> }
>
> This all seems to work fine and gives me the following XML file:
>
> <words>
>
> <word>
>
> <name>dog</name>
>
> <partOfSpeech>noun</partOfSpeech>
>
> <category>animal</category>
>
> <definition>a domesticated canid, Canis familiaris, bred in
> many varieties</definition>
>
> </word>
>
> <word>
>
> <name>cat</name>
>
> <partOfSpeech>noun</partOfSpeech>
>
> <category>animail</category>
>
> <definition>a small domesticated carnivore, Felis domestica or
> F. catus, bred in a number of varieties</definition>
>
> </word>
> </words>
>
> My question is how do I use XStream to read this XML file back into a
> vector of objects? Is there an example similar to this you could point me
> to?
Words words = (Words)xstream.fromXML(new FileInputStream("c:/dirctionary"));
??
- Jörg
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