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Issue loading .XML files with doc4J in Java

I am facing an issue where I cannot load even the sample word2003xml.xml which is provided by doc4J for tests in docx4j-samples-docx4j-8.3.1.zip found here https://www.docx4java.org/downloads.html
I tried loading the file using 2 different constructors but the result is the same.
WordprocessingMLPackage wordMLPackage = WordprocessingMLPackage.load(new FileInputStream(new File("C:\\Mine\\project4tests\\word2003xml.xml")));
WordprocessingMLPackage wordMLPackage2 = WordprocessingMLPackage.load(new java.io.File("C:\\Mine\\project4tests\\word2003xml.xml"));
Here is the exception that I am getting:
Exception in thread "main" org.docx4j.openpackaging.exceptions.Docx4JException: Couldn't load xml from stream
at org.docx4j.openpackaging.packages.OpcPackage.load(OpcPackage.java:641)
at org.docx4j.openpackaging.packages.OpcPackage.load(OpcPackage.java:418)
at org.docx4j.openpackaging.packages.OpcPackage.load(OpcPackage.java:376)
at org.docx4j.openpackaging.packages.OpcPackage.load(OpcPackage.java:341)
at org.docx4j.openpackaging.packages.WordprocessingMLPackage.load(WordprocessingMLPackage.java:182)
at Main.main(Main.java:13)
Caused by: javax.xml.bind.UnmarshalException
with linked exception:
[com.sun.istack.internal.SAXParseException2; lineNumber: 3; columnNumber: 827; unexpected element (uri:"http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/wordml", local:"wordDocument"). Expected elements are <{http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/xmlPackage}package>,<{http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/xmlPackage}part>,<{http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/xmlPackage}xmlData>]
at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.unmarshaller.UnmarshallerImpl.handleStreamException(UnmarshallerImpl.java:468)
at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.unmarshaller.UnmarshallerImpl.unmarshal0(UnmarshallerImpl.java:402)
at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.unmarshaller.UnmarshallerImpl.unmarshal(UnmarshallerImpl.java:371)
at org.docx4j.convert.in.FlatOpcXmlImporter.<init>(FlatOpcXmlImporter.java:132)
at org.docx4j.openpackaging.packages.OpcPackage.load(OpcPackage.java:638)
... 5 more
Caused by: com.sun.istack.internal.SAXParseException2; lineNumber: 3; columnNumber: 827; unexpected element (uri:"http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/wordml", local:"wordDocument"). Expected elements are <{http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/xmlPackage}package>,<{http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/xmlPackage}part>,<{http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/xmlPackage}xmlData>
at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.unmarshaller.UnmarshallingContext.handleEvent(UnmarshallingContext.java:726)
at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.unmarshaller.Loader.reportError(Loader.java:247)
at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.unmarshaller.Loader.reportError(Loader.java:242)
at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.unmarshaller.Loader.reportUnexpectedChildElement(Loader.java:109)
at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.unmarshaller.UnmarshallingContext$DefaultRootLoader.childElement(UnmarshallingContext.java:1131)
at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.unmarshaller.UnmarshallingContext._startElement(UnmarshallingContext.java:556)
at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.unmarshaller.UnmarshallingContext.startElement(UnmarshallingContext.java:538)
at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.unmarshaller.InterningXmlVisitor.startElement(InterningXmlVisitor.java:60)
at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.unmarshaller.StAXStreamConnector.handleStartElement(StAXStreamConnector.java:231)
at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.unmarshaller.StAXStreamConnector.bridge(StAXStreamConnector.java:165)
at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.unmarshaller.UnmarshallerImpl.unmarshal0(UnmarshallerImpl.java:400)
... 8 more
Caused by: javax.xml.bind.UnmarshalException: unexpected element (uri:"http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/wordml", local:"wordDocument"). Expected elements are <{http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/xmlPackage}package>,<{http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/xmlPackage}part>,<{http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/xmlPackage}xmlData>
... 19 more
There is no issue loading a .DOCX file, however what I need to use the docx4J library is to convert an old .DOC (WordprocessingML more like an .XML) file into a .DOCX.
Similar to what is done here https://coderanch.com/t/721499/java/Word-XML-DOCX
Does anybody know why I cannot load the file properly?

See https://github.com/plutext/docx4j/blob/master/docx4j-core/src/main/java/org/docx4j/convert/in/word2003xml/Word2003XmlConverter.java for 2003 XML files.
Note that .doc is the old binary format; its not XML, it is something different again.

Functionality by JasonPlutext here: https://github.com/plutext/docx4j/blob/master/docx4j-core/src/main/java/org/docx4j/convert/in/word2003xml/Word2003XmlConverter.java
This was later fixed with this commit here: https://github.com/plutext/docx4j/commit/2c846e7c633d0264757521d15a3f5f37b037b815

Reading UTF-16 XML files with JCabi Java

I have found this JCabi snippet code that works well with UTF-8 xml encoded files, it basically reads the xml file and then prints it as a string.
XML xml;
try {
xml = new XMLDocument(new File("test8.xml"));
String xmlString = xml.toString();
System.out.println(xmlString);
} catch (FileNotFoundException e1) {
e1.printStackTrace();
}
However I need this to run this same code on a UTF-16 encoded xml it gives me the following error:
[Fatal Error] :1:1: Content is not allowed in prolog.
Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Can't parse, most probably the XML is invalid
Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 1; columnNumber: 1; Content is not allowed in prolog.
I have read about this error and this means that the parser it is not recognizing the prolog because it's seeing characters that are not supposed to be there because of the encoding.
I have tried other libraries that offer a way to "tell" the class which encoding the source file is encoded in, but the only library I was able to get it to work to some degree was JCabi, but I was not able to find a way to tell it that my source file is encoded in UTF-16.
Thanks, any help is appreciated.

The jcabi XMLDocument has various constructors including one which takes a string. So one approach is to use:
Path path = Paths.get("test16_LE_with_bom.xml");
XML xml = new XMLDocument(Files.readString(path, StandardCharsets.UTF_16LE));
String xmlString = xml.toString();
System.out.println(xmlString);
This makes use of java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets and java.nio.file.Files.
In my first test, my XML file was encoded as UTF-16-LE (and with a BOM at the start: FF FE for little-endian). The above approach handled the BOM OK.
My test file's prolog is as follows (with no explicit encoding - maybe that's a bad thing, here?):
<?xml version="1.0"?>
In my second test I removed the BOM and re-ran with the updated file - which also worked.
I used Notepad++ and a hex editor to verify/select encodings & to edit the test files.
Your file may be different from my test files (BE vs. LE).

Groovy: parse string with special symbols

I have this description that I get from user:
sample description with special symbols >.
I want to parse this into a valid XML format string to pass it in my REST call. Currently, if I pass this as is, my third party implementation fires an exception, saying "it cannot handle any special symbols"
I have tried XMLParser, XmlSlurper but all fire exception as
[Fatal Error] :1:1: Content is not allowed in prolog.
Exception in thread "main" org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 1; columnNumber: 1; Content is not allowed in prolog.

It needs to be escaped if you are sending it inside xml.
Approach 1:
change from > to > in the value.
Approach 2:
Put the string inside CDATA as shown below.
<![CDATA[sample description with special symbols >]]>

SAXParseException when print the pdf from xslt and xml

I am trying to generate pdf from xml and xslt.
[Fatal Error] :89:14: Invalid byte 1 of 1-byte UTF-8 sequence.
file:////; Line #89; Column #14; org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; systemId: file:////; lineNumber: 89; columnNumber: 14; Invalid byte 1 of 1-byte UTF-8 sequence.
severe:XSLT Transformation failed null
JBAS014134: EJB Invocation failed on component PDFGenerationBean for
method public abstract java.util.List
au.com.copl.dbaccesslayer.session.PDFGenerationRemote.getPDFs(java.util.List,java.util.List,java.lang.Integer,java.lang.Integer)
throws java.lang.Exception: javax.ejb.EJBException:
java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.NullPointerException

Line 89 is
Part 1 – contains information about us and the services we can provide
to you; and.
Actually - sign creating the problem here. Now I have removed from this line. And pdf generated successfully.
now changed with this line
Part 1 contains information about us and the services we can provide
to you; and.

XML parsing tries to parse more lines then exist

I have a strange problem when parsing an xml request with JAXB: somehow it tries to parse more lines then exists in the string:
String xml; //content with 139 lines in xml format
MyReq req = JAXB.unmarshal(new StringReader(xml), MyReq.class);
Result:
Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 140; columnNumber: 1; Content is not allowed in trailing section.
What might be wrong with this?? The lines does not exist that is supposed to be have an error...
I can copy the xml just as it is to soapUI and execute the request successfully, thus concluding the xml is valid in general.

You should check the xml content. Most of the time Content is not allowed in trailing section error is because the content is not valid, probably some bad characters at the end of the stream.
You should print the content of the xml, with some known delimiters, to ensure that what you received is what you actually tested/expected, something like:
System.out.println("*"+xml+"*");