dom4j

w3schools xsd example won't work with dom4j. How do I use dom4j to validate xml using xsds?

I am trying to use dom4j to validate the xml at http://www.w3schools.com/Schema/schema_example.asp using the xsd from that same page. It fails with the following error: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: cvc-elt.1: Cannot find the declaration of element 'shiporder'. I'm using the following code: SAXReader reader = new SAXReader(); reader...

How do I substitute an xsd when using dom4j?

I'm using dom4j to load an xml file which references an xsd. If the xml file references the xsd http://foo/bar.xsd, how can I tell dom4j to instead use an xsd file located in the classpath? I was hoping that I could open an inputstream to the local xsd and then pass that to dom4j to use when it encounters that url. The next best thing w...

Printing dom4j element tree, node by node without asXML()?

First off I already know about the Node.asXML() method. Assuming I have a dom4j node and I wish to get at that nodes xml but none of its children's xml. So in the example below If I have Node B and I only want to get , do some stuff, then get . Basically I wish there was an asXMLBeforeChildren() and asXMLAfterChildren() methods. Any hint...

Parsing xml with dom4j or jdom or anyhow

Hello, I wanna read feed entries and I'm just stuck now. Take this for example : http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/question/2084883 lets say I wanna read all the summary node value inside each entry node in document. How do I do that? I've changed many variations of code this one is closest to what I want to achieve I think : Element entry...

Can I query DOM Document with xpath expression from multiple threads safely?

I plan to use dom4j DOM Document as a static cache in an application where multiples threads can query the document. Taking into the account that the document itself will never change, is it safe to query it from multiple threads? I wrote the following code to test it, but I am not sure that it actually does prove that operation is sa...

DOM4J and Hibernate: Dealing with the XML

So my web application is primarily using XML for client to server interaction and I'm currently persisting most of my backend using hibernate. I know there are XML databases and there that you can save XML using hibernate by invoking Sessions with the DOM4J entity but I'm not sure what the most efficient way of serving up the XML really ...

DOM4J/XPATH Parsing of document

Node existingUserNode = loginDoc.selectSingleNode("/returningUser"); String username = existingUserNode.selectSingleNode("/username").getText(); String password = existingUserNode.selectSingleNode("/password").getText(); for <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><returningUser><username>user</username><password>password</password></r...

parsing with dom4j

I am successfully retrieve the data of response using xpath expression /abcde/response from the xml , <abcde> <response>000</response> </abcde> But couldnt retrieve the data of response from the same xml but with some additional data <abcde version="8.1" xmlns="http://www.litle.com/schema" response="0" message="Vali...

I use dom4j1.6 in java(xml), but I can't addattribute null value, What can I do?

In my source----- Element element1 = element.addElement("List"); element1.addAttribute("Number", (String)Map.get("NUMBER")); element1.addAttribute("Indicator", null); I want a result like that=> element1 Indicator=""/ I use use dom4j1.6 in java, I search the method, addattribute method => Attributes with null values are silentl...

dom4j XPath not working parsing xhtml document

I'm trying to use dom4j to parse an xhtml document. If I simply print out the document I can see the entire document so I know it is being loaded correctly. The two divs that I'm trying to select are at the exact same level in the document. html body div table tbody tr td table tbody ...

XPath contains(...)

I have a small problem with Xpath contains with dom4j ... Lets say my XML is <Home> <Addr> <Street>ABC</Street> <Number>5</Number> <Comment>BLAH BLAH BLAH <br/><br/>ABC</Comment> </Addr> </Home> Lets say I want to find all the nodes that have ABC in the text given the root Element... So the xpath tha...

Dom4j XPath distinguish null or empty string

I have an XML Schema element like this: <xs:element type="xs:string" name="IsActive" minOccurs="0"> </xs:element> I'm using dom4j XPath to evaluate the element. It seems impossible to determine whether element is present in the XML document or if its value is simply "". I want <IsActive> to be either, 1) "" 2) "anyvalue1" 3) "anyva...

How does dom4j library implements Flyweight pattern?

I can see in dom4j library a number of classes with Flyweight prefix: FlyweightAttribute, FlyweightComment, FlyweightText etc. Here is what java doc is saying in the case of FlyweightText: FlyweightText is a Flyweight pattern implementation of a singly linked, read-only XML Text. This node could be shared across documents and elements ...