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Unable to parse XML using java

I have an XML string got as a response. But I am unable to reach at Response Code and remarks. Can anybody help me to get the response code.
<s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<s:Body>
<GetIMEIInfoResponse xmlns="http://tempuri.org/">
<GetIMEIInfoResult>
<![CDATA[
<SerialsDetail>
<Item>
<ResponseCode>2</ResponseCode>
<Remark>Invalid Input</Remark>
</Item>
</SerialsDetail>
]]>
</GetIMEIInfoResult>
</GetIMEIInfoResponse>
</s:Body>
</s:Envelope>
Thats how I am trying to do
DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder builder;
try {
builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
Document doc = builder.parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(response)));
NodeList list = doc.getElementsByTagName("Remark");
System.out.println(list.getLength());
Node n = list.item(0);
System.out.println(n.getTextContent());
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}

You are asking for an element with name "Remark", but you document does not contain such an element. Instead, it contains only an "GetIMEIInfoResult" element with a bunch of text in it. This text happens to be xml. But in order to access the contents of the inner piece of XML, you have to parse the contents of the "GetIMEIInfoResult" in the same way that you've parsed the entire document.
Here is how you can do it:
import java.io.*;
import javax.xml.parsers.*;
import org.w3c.dom.*;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
public class NestedCDATA {
private static String response =
"<s:Envelope xmlns:s=\"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/\">" +
" <s:Body>" +
" <GetIMEIInfoResponse xmlns=\"http://tempuri.org/\">" +
" <GetIMEIInfoResult>" +
" <![CDATA[" +
" <SerialsDetail>" +
" <Item>" +
" <ResponseCode>2</ResponseCode>" +
" <Remark>Aawwwwwwww yeaaaah!</Remark>" +
" </Item>" +
" </SerialsDetail>" +
" ]]>" +
" </GetIMEIInfoResult>" +
" </GetIMEIInfoResponse>" +
" </s:Body>" +
"</s:Envelope>";
public static String getCdata(Node parent) {
NodeList cs = parent.getChildNodes();
for(int i = 0; i < cs.getLength(); i++){
Node c = cs.item(i);
if(c instanceof CharacterData) {
CharacterData cdata = (CharacterData)c;
String content = cdata.getData().trim();
if (content.length() > 0) {
return content;
}
}
}
return "";
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder builder;
try {
builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
Document doc = builder.parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(response)));
Node cdataParent = doc.getElementsByTagName("GetIMEIInfoResult").item(0);
DocumentBuilder cdataBuilder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
Document cdataDoc = cdataBuilder.parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(
getCdata(cdataParent)
)));
Node remark = cdataDoc.getElementsByTagName("Remark").item(0);
System.out.println("Content of Remark in CDATA: " + getCdata(remark));
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
Result: "Content of Remark in CDATA: Aawwwwwwww yeaaaah!".
Here is another interesting question for you: why does your service output XML with XML in it? XML all by itself is already nested enough. Is it really necessary to wrap parts of it in CDATA?

The problem of the XML is that the data in the tag GetIMEIInfoResult is CDATA. This causes the builder not to recognize it as XML. To access the data in the tag GetIMEIInfoResult you can use the following:
Element infoResult = (Element) list.item(0);
String elementData = getCharacterDataOfNode(infoResult.getFirstChild());
public static String getCharacterDataOfNode(Node node) {
String data = "";
if (node instanceof CharacterData) {
data = ((CharacterData) node).getData();
}
return data;
}
Then you have to parse that data again with a DocumentBuilder where you can access the tag Remark. To get the content you have again work with the getCharacterDataOfNode() method.

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I am facing difficulty in accessing XML value, Can any one let me know what i am missing.
String xml = "<Standard p1:oid=\"00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000f674c1\"\n" +
" xmlns:p1=\"com.iMelt.metaCore.DataObjects.Core\" xmlns=\"com.iMelt.Car.Model.Core\"\n" +
" reasonCode=\"0\">\n" +
" <p1:__info p1:eid=\"00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000\">\n" +
" <p1:creationDate>2016-05-28T20:33:45.337+00:00</p1:creationDate>\n" +
" <p1:lastEditorRef>Administrator</p1:lastEditorRef>\n" +
" <p1:version>5</p1:version>\n" +
" </p1:__info>\n" +
" <ChangeState>Approved</ChangeState></Standard>";
byte[] byteArray = xml.getBytes();
ByteArrayInputStream inputStream = new ByteArrayInputStream(byteArray);
DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
factory.setNamespaceAware(true);
DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
Document doc = builder.parse(inputStream);
XPathFactory xpathfactory = XPathFactory.newInstance();
XPath xpath = xpathfactory.newXPath();
XPathExpression expr = xpath.compile("/Standard/ChangeState");
Object result = expr.evaluate(doc, XPathConstants.NODESET);

The problem is, is that you don't have nodes called "Standard" and "ChangeState", you have nodes that have namespaced version of Standard and ChangeState.
So you need to use the XPath.setNamespace() method to associate a prefix with a namespace, and then use that prefix in your xpath expressions. Note since you only using the default namespace in your queries, that's all you have to specify, something like
String xml = "<Standard p1:oid=\"00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000f674c1\"\n"
+ " xmlns:p1=\"com.iMelt.metaCore.DataObjects.Core\" xmlns=\"com.iMelt.Car.Model.Core\"\n"
+ " reasonCode=\"0\">\n" + " <p1:__info p1:eid=\"00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000\">\n"
+ " <p1:creationDate>2016-05-28T20:33:45.337+00:00</p1:creationDate>\n" + " <p1:lastEditorRef>Administrator</p1:lastEditorRef>\n"
+ " <p1:version>5</p1:version>\n" + " </p1:__info>\n" + " <ChangeState>Approved</ChangeState></Standard>";
byte[] byteArray = xml.getBytes();
ByteArrayInputStream inputStream = new ByteArrayInputStream(byteArray);
DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
factory.setNamespaceAware(true);
DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
Document doc = builder.parse(inputStream);
XPathFactory xpathfactory = XPathFactory.newInstance();
XPath xpath = xpathfactory.newXPath();
xpath.setNamespaceContext(new NamespaceContext() {
#Override
public String getNamespaceURI(String prefix) {
return "com.iMelt.Car.Model.Core";
}
#Override
public String getPrefix(String namespaceURI) {
return "x";
}
#Override
public Iterator getPrefixes(String namespaceURI) {
return null;
}
});
XPathExpression expr = xpath.compile("/x:Standard/x:ChangeState");
NodeList result = (NodeList) expr.evaluate(doc, XPathConstants.NODESET);
The other, less valid option is to remove the statement
factory.setNamespaceAware(true);

The following code outputs "Approved". I have removed factory.setNamespaceAware(true);so that you don't need to specify the default namespace and added code at the end to output the text value.
import java.util.*;
import java.lang.*;
import java.io.*;
import javax.xml.parsers.*;
import org.w3c.dom.*;
import javax.xml.xpath.*;
// ...
String xml = "<Standard p1:oid=\"00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000f674c1\"\n" +
" xmlns:p1=\"com.iMelt.metaCore.DataObjects.Core\" xmlns=\"com.iMelt.Car.Model.Core\"\n" +
" reasonCode=\"0\">\n" +
" <p1:__info p1:eid=\"00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000\">\n" +
" <p1:creationDate>2016-05-28T20:33:45.337+00:00</p1:creationDate>\n" +
" <p1:lastEditorRef>Administrator</p1:lastEditorRef>\n" +
" <p1:version>5</p1:version>\n" +
" </p1:__info>\n" +
" <ChangeState>Approved</ChangeState></Standard>";
byte[] byteArray = xml.getBytes();
ByteArrayInputStream inputStream = new ByteArrayInputStream(byteArray);
DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
Document doc = builder.parse(inputStream);
XPathFactory xpathfactory = XPathFactory.newInstance();
XPath xpath = xpathfactory.newXPath();
XPathExpression expr = xpath.compile("/Standard/ChangeState");
NodeList result = (NodeList)expr.evaluate(doc, XPathConstants.NODESET);
Node node = result.item(0);
System.out.println(node.getTextContent());

Read inside a Tag using XPath Java

Hye I am new to read XML File using Java my problem is that I have been trying to read an xml and between a specific tag I want to get the required data I am using XPath and my query is:
String expression = "/ADOXML/MODELS/MODEL/MODELATTRIBUTES/ATTRIBUTE[#type='STRING']";
It works fine and my specific Tag to read from is:
<ATTRIBUTE name="Description" type="STRING"> SOME TEXT </ATTRIBUTE>
But I want to read the data inside only these types of Tags so that my output should be:
SOME TEXT
inside the tag!
can somebody help me how can I do this Please I am new to xml reading! Trying my best as:
String expression = "/ADOXML/MODELS/MODEL/MODELATTRIBUTES/ATTRIBUTE[#name='Description' and ./type/text()='STRING']";
But it wont give me any output!
thanks in advance
My Code:
DocumentBuilderFactory builderFactory =
DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder builder = null;
try {
builder = builderFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
org.w3c.dom.Document document = builder.parse(
new FileInputStream("c:\\y.xml"));
XPath xPath = XPathFactory.newInstance().newXPath();
String expression = "/ADOXML/MODELS/MODEL/MODELATTRIBUTES/ATTRIBUTE[#name='Description'and #type='STRING']";
System.out.println(expression);
NodeList nodeList = (NodeList) xPath.compile(expression).evaluate(document, XPathConstants.NODESET);
for (int i = 0; i < nodeList.getLength(); i++) {
System.out.println(nodeList.item(i).getFirstChild().getNodeValue());
}
} catch (ParserConfigurationException | SAXException | IOException e) {
System.out.print(e);
}
There is a problem with my code cant figure out what!

This code works fine for me with the changed XPath to:
"/ADOXML/MODELS/MODEL/MODELATTRIBUTES/ATTRIBUTE[#name='Description'][#type='STRING']":
private static final String EXAMPLE_XML =
"<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>" +
"<ADOXML adoversion=\"Version 5.1\" username=\"kvarga\" database=\"adonisdb\" time=\"08:55\" date=\"30.11.2013\" version=\"3.1\">" +
"<MODELS>" +
"<MODEL version=\"\" applib=\"ADONIS BPMS BP Library 5.1\" libtype=\"bp\" modeltype=\"Business process model\" name=\"Product development\" id=\"mod.25602\">" +
"<MODELATTRIBUTES>" +
"<ATTRIBUTE name=\"Version number\" type=\"STRING\"> </ATTRIBUTE>" +
"<ATTRIBUTE name=\"Author\" type=\"STRING\">kvarga</ATTRIBUTE>" +
"<ATTRIBUTE name=\"Description\" type=\"STRING\">I WANT THIS PARA 2</ATTRIBUTE>" +
"</MODELATTRIBUTES>" +
"</MODEL>" +
"</MODELS>" +
"</ADOXML>";
public static void main(String[] args) {
DocumentBuilderFactory builderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder builder = null;
try {
builder = builderFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
Document document = builder.parse(new ByteArrayInputStream(EXAMPLE_XML.getBytes()));
XPath xPath = XPathFactory.newInstance().newXPath();
String expression = "/ADOXML/MODELS/MODEL/MODELATTRIBUTES/ATTRIBUTE[#name='Description'][#type='STRING']";
NodeList nodeList = (NodeList) xPath.compile(expression).evaluate(document, XPathConstants.NODESET);
for (int i = 0; i < nodeList.getLength(); i++) {
System.out.println("###" + nodeList.item(i).getFirstChild().getNodeValue() + "###");
}
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.print(e);
}
}
OUTPUT:
###I WANT THIS PARA 2###

The mentioned code works fine.
You can try other way also to get the text node -
String expression = "/ADOXML/MODELS/MODEL/MODELATTRIBUTES/ATTRIBUTE/text()";
NodeList nodeList = (NodeList) xPath.compile(expression).evaluate(document, XPathConstants.NODESET);
System.out.println(nodeList.item(0).getNodeValue());

Parsing XSI with Java

I'm trying to parse XML strings into a Document that I can use for easy searching. But when I run into certain kinds of XML, it doesn't seem to work. The document is never constructed, and is null when it encounters an XML message like I have at the bottom. An excpetion is not thrown by anything in my try/catch
My code currently looks like this:
Document convertMessageToDoc(String message){
Document doc = null;
try {
DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
dbf.setNamespaceAware(true);
DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
InputSource is = new InputSource();
is.setCharacterStream(new StringReader(message));
doc = db.parse(is);
}
catch (Exception e) {
//e.printStackTrace();
doc = null;
}
return doc;
}
What are some ways that I would be able to work with something like this:
<ns1:SubmitFNOLResponse xmlns:ns1="http://website.com/">
<ns1:FNOLReporting xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:type="ns1:FNOLReporting">
<ns1:FNOLResponse>
<ns1:FNOLStatusInfo>
<ns1:StatusCode>0</ns1:StatusCode>
<ns1:StatusMessages />
</ns1:FNOLStatusInfo>
</ns1:FNOLResponse>
</ns1:FNOLReporting>
</ns1:SubmitFNOLResponse>

It looks like your document is not "well formed". You need a single root element where you have two sibling "ns1:Prod" tags at the root.

Your document is not well-formed XML. Once it is, everything appears to work as expected.
String message =
"<ns1:Prods xmlns:ns1='/foo'>"// xmlns:ns1='uri'>"
+ "<ns1:Prod>"
+ " <ns1:ProductID>316</ns1:ProductID>"
+ " <ns1:Name>Blade</ns1:Name>"
+ "</ns1:Prod>"
+ "<ns1:Prod>"
+ " <ns1:ProductID>317</ns1:ProductID>"
+ " <ns1:Name>LL Crankarm</ns1:Name>"
+ " <ns1:Color>Black</ns1:Color>"
+ "</ns1:Prod>"
+ "</ns1:Prods>";
Document doc = null;
try {
DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
dbf.setNamespaceAware(true);
dbf.setValidating(false);
DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
InputSource is = new InputSource();
is.setCharacterStream(new StringReader(message));
doc = db.parse(is);
NodeList sections = doc.getElementsByTagName("ns1:Prod");
int numSections = sections.getLength();
for (int i = 0; i < numSections; i++) {
Element section = (Element) sections.item(i);
NodeList prodinfos = section.getChildNodes();
for (int j = 0; j < prodinfos.getLength(); j++) {
Node info = prodinfos.item(j);
if (info.getNodeType() != Node.TEXT_NODE) {
System.out.println(info.getNodeName() + ": " + info.getTextContent());
}
}
System.out.println("");
}
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
doc = null;
}
// Outputs
ns1:ProductID: 316
ns1:Name: Blade
ns1:ProductID: 317
ns1:Name: LL Crankarm
ns1:Color: Black

XSLT parameter not replaced

Could someone advise me what's wrong with the XSLT transformation below? I have stripped it down to a minimum.
Basically, I would like to have a parameter "title" replaced, but I cannot get it to run. The transformation simply ignores the parameter. I have highlighted the relevant bits with some exclamation marks.
Any advise is greatly appreciated.
public class Test {
private static String xslt =
"<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n" +
"<xsl:stylesheet\n" +
" xmlns:xsl=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform\"\n" +
" version=\"1.0\">\n" +
" <xsl:param name=\"title\" />\n" +
" <xsl:template match=\"/Foo\">\n" +
" <html><head><title>{$title}</title></head></html>\n" + // !!!!!!!!!!!
" </xsl:template>\n" +
"</xsl:stylesheet>\n";
public static void main(String[] args) {
try {
final DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
dbf.setNamespaceAware( true );
final DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
final Document document = db.newDocument();
document.appendChild( document.createElement( "Foo" ) );
final StringWriter resultWriter = new StringWriter();
TransformerFactory factory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
Transformer transformer = factory.newTransformer( new StreamSource( new StringReader( xslt ) ) );
// !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
transformer.setParameter( "title", "This is a title" );
// !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
transformer.transform( new DOMSource( document ), new StreamResult( resultWriter ) );
System.out.println( resultWriter.toString() );
} catch( Exception ex ) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
I'm using Java 6 without any factory-specific system properties set.
Thank you in advance!

<html><head><title>{$title}</title></head></html>
The problem is in the above line.
In XSLT the {someXPathExpression} syntax can be used only in (some) attributes, and never in text nodes.
Solution:
Replace the above with:
<html><head><title><xsl:value-of select="$title"/></title></head></html>