I have an xml bundle file which I would like to read through and compare the objects within the bundle. The start position would be the mo tag until the next mo tag.
I have done xmlunit but this compares 2 xml files. I would like to be able to compare the objects within one xml bundle file.
Don't know if this makes sense. If more info is needed, I can try explain more.
Sample of the xml file:
<mo>FIELD</mo>
<pk1>DM_READEXTRACT</pk1>
<bo>F1-FieldPhysicalBO</bo>
<boData>
<field>DM_READEXTRACT</field>
<dataType>CHAR</dataType>
<isSigned>false</isSigned>
<isWorkField>false</isWorkField>
<version>9</version>
</boData>
<entities>
<processingSequence>560</processingSequence>
<sequence>560</sequence>
</entities>
<mo>FIELD</mo>
<pk1>DM_READEXTRACT</pk1>
<bo>F1-FieldPhysicalBO</bo>
<boData>
<field>DM_READEXTRACT</field>
<dataType>CHAR</dataType>
<isSigned>false</isSigned>
<isWorkField>false</isWorkField>
<version>2</version>
</boData>
<entities>
<processingSequence>30</processingSequence>
<sequence>3</sequence>
</entities>
Maybe try to unmarshall XML to java objects and than compare?
http://www.mkyong.com/java/jaxb-hello-world-example/
XMLUnit works on Nodes as well - at least 2.x does.
By looking at your example, what you want to compare is not a proper tree but a forrest - there is no root element all others are children of.
What you can do is creating a DocumentFragment for each forrest you want to compare (on both the test and control sides) and add all roots of your forrest to it - and then tell XMLUnit to work on the DocumentFragments. You can obtain an instance of a DocumentFragment by first loading the DOM Document and then calling createDocumentFragment on it.
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How to convert following XML to java using jaxb
<work>
<subwork id="sub">
<ret="it">
</subwork>
<ret id="it">
<time>9</time>
</ret>
</work>
It is a bit tough since ret tag is outside subwork tag
Frst, you need to start with valid XML. I've made assumptions in correcting the XML:
<work>
<subwork id="sub">
<ret id="it"/>
</subwork>
<ret id="it">
<time>9</time>
</ret>
</work>
Second (and there are other ways of doing this), you need to create a schema that describes this XML. Without doing it for you, I'll say that the trick is to define an element, ret, and then refer to that element within the work element and again within the subwork element.
Third, you then feed that schema file (.XSD) into a tool that generates the JAXB classes. Typically this is xcj.exe (included with the Java JDK).
How can I find and iterate through all the nodes present under CDATA and those nodes are started by (<) and closed by (>)?
Also, how should I iterate over all the child nodes and get the values like in below child node? I want to retrieve the value.
Input XML
<SOURCE TransactionId="1" ProviderName="ABCDD"><RESPONSE><![CDATA[<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"><soap:Body><NetworkResponse xmlns="http://www.example.com/"><NetworkResult><Network offering_id="13" transaction_id="2" submission_id="3" timestamp="20140828 16010683 GMT" customer_id="NETTest">
<Network_List>
<Network_Info att0="Y" att1="N" att2="N" att3="Y" att4="Y">
<SIM_DATA>
<SIM><![CDATA[1100040101]]></SIM>
</SIM_DATA>
<NetworkResponseInfo k_status="C">
<KEY1>269</KEY1>
<PARENTNODE>
<CHILDNODE1>
<KEY2>XXXXXXX</KEY2>
<KEY3>YYYYYYY</KEY3>
</CHILDNODE1>
<CHILDNODE2>
<KEY4>N</KEY4>
<KEY5>I</KEY5>
</CHILDNODE2>
<CHILDNODE3>
<KEY6>1</KEY6>
<KEY7>3</KEY7>
</CHILDNODE3>
</PARENTNODE>
<KEY8><![CDATA[some image not visible]]></KEY8>
<KEY9>N</KEY9>
<KEY10>15</KEY10>
</NetworkResponseInfo>
</Network_Info>
</Network_List>
<response_message_list transaction_status_code="000" transaction_status_text="Successful"/>
</Network></NetworkResult></NetworkResponse></soap:Body></soap:Envelope>]]></RESPONSE></SOURCE>
Output XML
<ns3:NetworkResponse>
<Networks_OF_List>
<NetCharSeq>
<Nrep>
<type>Some Image</type>
<data> Data Coming from KEY8 CDATA section</data>
</Nrep>
<Nrep>
<type>ANYTHING</type>
<data>VALUE INSIDE SIM CDATA</data>
</Nrep>
<NetDetail>
<MYKEY1>Value present inside KEY4</MYKEY1>
<MYKEY2>Value present inside KEY5</MYKEY2>
</NetDetail>
<SystemID>Value of KEY2</SystemID>
<SystemPath>Valuelue of KEY3</SystemPath>
</NetCharSeq>
</Networks_OF_List>
</ns3:NetworkResponse>
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If you can use XSLT 3.0, you can consider using the new fn:parse-xml function, which will take a document-as-a-string.
However, your CDATA-section contains itself escaped data, which means that, after you apply fn:parse-xml, you will have to do it once again for the text node that is the child of NetworkResult.
A better solution is often to fix this at the source and creating an XML format that allows other XML in certain elements (you can allow this with a proper XSD). It will save you a lot of trouble and at least you XML can then be pre-validated.
If you are stuck with XSLT 2.0 or 1.0, you can use disable-output-escaping (google it, there is a lot of info around on how to use it), but you will have to re-process your output once more because of the double-escape that is used. You may want to consider an XProc pipeline to ease the process.
You wrote: Also, how should I iterate over all the child nodes and get the values like in below child node
That is what XSLT is all about, please read this XSLT Tutorial, or any other tutorial you can find, it will be explained to you in the first minutes.
Update: as suggested by michael.hor257k in the comments, you can also parse the escaped data by hand using string manipulation functions. As he already says in the comments, this is laborious and error-prone, but sometimes, esp. if the XML is not really XML after unescaping, but something like XML, then this may be your only option.
So say I have an XML file that looks like this:
<Object1s>
<Object1>
<Field1></Field1>
<Object2s>
<Object2>
<Field1a></Field1a>
<Field1b></Field1b>
</Object2>
<Object2>
<Field1a></Field1a>
<Field1b></Field1b>
</Object2>
</Object2s>
</Object1>
<Object1>
<Field1></Field1>
<Object2s>
<Object2>
<Field1a></Field1a>
<Field1b></Field1b>
</Object2>
</Object2s>
</Object1>
</Object1s>
The DOM tutorials I've found have not worked when I try and do the same sort of thing. For instance, I want to be able to separate the Object2s by the Object1 that they are in. When following the example given by DOM tutorials where this type of thing doesn't exist in their XML files, I get all the Object2s that are in any Object1 when I try to find them.
Can someone show me an example that handles something like this?
Okay, figured it out. What I do is use the element I declare for each element, and within that call .getElementsBytagName() to get the elements within that element.
I have an issue trying to compare 2 XML documents in Java, using oracle.xml.differ.XMLDiff. The code is fully implemented and I expected it to be working fine, until I discovered an attribute change is not picked up in some instances. To demonstrate this, I have the following:
Setup:
DOMParser parser = new DOMParser();
parser.setPreserveWhitespace(false);
parser.parse(isCurrent);
XMLDocument currentXmlDoc = parser.getDocument();
parser.parse(isPrior);
XMLDocument priorXmlDoc = parser.getDocument();
XMLDiff xmlDiff = new XMLDiff();
xmlDiff.setDocuments(currentXmlDoc, priorXmlDoc);
In the first case, the attribute change in Strike is picked up fine. I have the following 2 XML files:
XML1
<Periods>
<Period Start="2011-03-28" End="2011-04-17" AverageStart="" AverageEnd="" Notional="6000000.0000" OptionType="Swap" Payment="2011-04-19" Strike="72.0934800" Underlying="ZA" ResetStrike="No" ResetNotional="No" QuotingDate="2011-04-17" Multiplier="1.000000" PlusConstant="0.000000" StopLossPercent="" StopLossLevel=""/>
</Periods>
XML2
<Periods>
<Period Start="2011-03-28" End="2011-04-17" AverageStart="" AverageEnd="" Notional="6000000.0000" OptionType="Swap" Payment="2011-04-19" Strike="0.0000000" Underlying="ZA" ResetStrike="No" ResetNotional="No" QuotingDate="2011-04-17" Multiplier="1.000000" PlusConstant="0.000000" StopLossPercent="" StopLossLevel=""/>
</Periods>
In the second case, the attribute change in Strike is not picked up. I have the following 2 XML files:
XML1
<Periods>
<Period Start="2011-03-28" End="2011-04-30" Payment="2011-05-02" Notional="5220000.000000" Strike="176.201900" StopLossPercent="" StopLossLevel=""/>
</Periods>
XML2
<Periods>
<Period Start="2011-03-28" End="2011-04-30" Payment="2011-05-02" Notional="5220000.000000" Strike="0.000000" StopLossPercent="" StopLossLevel=""/>
</Periods>
Does anyone know if I'm doing something wrong, or is there a bug in the XMLDiff package?
Alternatively, does anyone know a different tool that can be used in the same way, just identifying differences in nodes and attributes between XML files, regardless of the order?
Thanks,
Milena
UPDATE: As it's extremely time-consuming to get new external packages approved for use in our system, in the ideal case I'd like to find a solution to making oracle.xml.differ.XMLDiff work. Obviously if there really is a bug and this can't be bypassed I'll consider other tools.
UPDATE 2: Since nobody seems to know about the XMLDiff bug, I'll try implementing the suggested XMLUnit package, it should do the trick.
In a unit test i'm using org.custommonkey.xmlunit.Diff for comparing xml content. See http://xmlunit.sourceforge.net/api/org/custommonkey/xmlunit/Diff.html
I'm comparing xml strings but you can also compare xml w3c documents. I hope you can convert your XMLDocument to either a String of an org.w3c.dom.Document.
my testcase looks like this:
String actualXML = SomeClass.getElement().asXML();
String expectedXML = IOUtils.toString(this.getClass().getResourceAsStream("/expected.xml"));
org.custommonkey.xmlunit.Diff myDiff = new Diff(StringUtils.deleteWhitespace(expectedXML), StringUtils.deleteWhitespace(actualXML));
assertTrue(MessageFormat.format("XML must be simular: {0}\nActual XML:\n{1}\n", myDiff, actualXML), myDiff.similar());
p.s. I also use the apache commons StringUtils.deleteWhitespace() method, cause i'm not interested in white space differences.
I am totally new to XML and its capabilities.
I have a file say xyz.xml.
It contains content like this:
<system-config>
<business-model>
<agent-category key="operator">
<singular-name>Operator</singular-name>
<plural-name>Operators</plural-name>
<attribute>agent-attribute.reference</attribute>
</agent-category>
Next I have
<agent-attribute id="agent-attribute.reference">
<name>Reference</name>
< description>A unique identifier for this agent, typically an MSISDN.</description>
<mandatory>true< /mandatory>
<editable>false< /editable>
<deletable>false< /deletable>
<sensitive>false< /sensitive>
<system-generated>false< /system-generated>
<input-method xsi:type="AgentReferenceInputMethod"></input-method>
<storage-location xsi:type="AgentRefStorage" field="reference"></storage-location>
</agent-attribute>
</business-model>
Now I want to distribute the agent-attributes to different file named agentAttr.xml.
Is it possible to do so (mind it <agent-attribute> is under <system-config><business-model>), if so how?
So you want to extract the agent-attribute portions ?. You can do that with simple XSLT transformation (use e.g. Xalan for that). Another option could be jsoup, parsing it using DOM or manually.