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DOM Parser wrong childNodes Count

This is strange but let me try my best to put it accross.
I have a XML which i am reading through the normal way from desktop and parsing it through DOM parser.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Abase
xmlns="www.abc.com/Events/Abase.xsd">
<FVer>0</FVer>
<DV>abc App</DV>
<DP>abc Wallet</DP>
<Dversion>11</Dversion>
<sigID>Ss22</sigID>
<activity>Adding New cake</activity>
</Abase>
Reading the XML to get the childs.
Document doc = docBuilder.parse("C://Users//Desktop//abc.xml");
Node root = doc.getElementsByTagName("Abase").item(0);
NodeList listOfNodes = root.getChildNodes(); //Sysout Prints 13
So here my logic works well.When am trying to do by pushing the same XML to a queue and read it and get the child nodes it gives me no. of child nodes is 6.
Document doc=docBuilder.parse(new InputSource(new ByteArrayInputStream(msg.getBytes("UTF-8"))));
Node root = doc.getElementsByTagName("Abase").item(0);
NodeList listOfNodes = root.getChildNodes(); //Sysout Prints 6
this screws my logic of parsing the XML.Can anyone help me out?
UPDATE
Adding sending logic :
javax.jms.TextMessage tmsg = session.createTextMessage();
tmsg.setText(inp);
sender.send(tmsg);
PROBLEM
If i read this xml from desktop it says 13 childs, 6 element node and 7 text nodes.The Common Logic is :
Read all the childs and iterate through list of child items.
If node ISNOT text node get inside if block,add one parent element with two child and append to existing ROOT.Then get NodeName and get TextContext between the element node and push them as setTextContext for both the childs respectively.
So i have a fresh ELEMENT NODE now which have two childs .And as i dont need the already existing element node now which are still the childs of root,Lastly am removing them.
So the above logic is all screwed if i am pushing the XML to queue and areading it for doing the same logic.
OUTPUT XML which is coming good when i read from desktop,but reading from queue is having problem, because it screw the complete tree.
<Abase
xmlns="www.abc.com/Events/Abase.xsd">
<Prop>
<propName>FVer</propName>
<propName>0</propName> //similarly for other nodes
</Prop>
</Abase>
Thanks

Well, there are 13 children if whitespace text nodes are included, but only 6 if whitespace text nodes are dropped. So there's some difference in the way the tree has been built between the two cases, that affects whether whitespace text nodes are retained or not.

The document under "Output XML" means that there is something wrong on the sender side. My guess would by that inp isn't a String but some kind of object and setText(inp) doesn't call inp.toString() but instead triggers some kind of serialization code which produces this odd XML that you're seeing.

JTree will only update one node. DOM4J DocumentTreeModel Underlying it

I have a JTree that I have linked with an XML Doc using DOM4J. I have a popup that allows me to add nodes where I select.
public void addNode() {
BranchTreeNode node = (BranchTreeNode) getLastSelectedPathComponent();
if ((node.getXmlNode() instanceof Element)
&& (node.getXmlNode().getName().equals(ROOT))) {
Element root = (Element) node.getXmlNode();
Element element = root.addElement(NODE);
}
}
This works great for the underlying XML, I can save it and read it perfectly. the problem is it will only add one single node in the tree and no matter how many nodes I add it will only display one, and that one's one child and so forth. Ive tried
treeModel.reload();
treeModel.reload(node);
treeModel.nodeChanged(node);
and just now, looking up the spelling in eclipse this hilariously worked
treeModel.setDocument(treeModel.getDocument());
So I guess my question now is: Is this the correct way to do it? Am I missing something?

Reducing code redundancy while creating XML with XOM

I am using XOM as my XML parsing library. And i am using this for creating XML also. Below is the scenario described with example.
Scenario:
Code:
Element root = new Element("atom:entry", "http://www.w3c.org/Atom");
Element city = new Element("info:city", "http://www.myinfo.com/Info");
city.appendChild("My City");
root.appendChild(city);
Document d = new Document(root);
System.out.println(d.toXML());
Generated XML:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<atom:entry xmlns:atom="http://www.w3c.org/Atom">
<info:city xmlns:info="http://www.myinfo.com/Info">
My City
</info:city>
</atom:entry>
Notice in the XML that here info namespace is added with the node itself. But I need this to be added in root element. like below
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<atom:entry xmlns:atom="http://www.w3c.org/Atom" xmlns:info="http://www.myinfo.com/Info">
<info:city>
My City
</info:city>
</atom:entry>
And to do that, i just need following piece of code
Element root = new Element("atom:entry", "http://www.w3c.org/Atom");
=> root.addNamespaceDeclaration("info", "http://www.myinfo.com/Info");
Element city = new Element("info:city", "http://www.myinfo.com/Info");
... ... ...
Problem is here i had to add http://www.myinfo.com/Info twice. And in my case there are hundreds of namespaces. So there will so too much redendancy. Is there any way to get rid of this redundancy?

No, there is no way to get rid of this redundancy and that's a deliberate decision. In XOM the namespace is a fundamental part of the element itself, not a function of its position in the document.
Of course you could always declare a named constant for the namespace URI.

Inserting nodes into an existing XML document in GWT client using XMLParser

I have an xml document (using the Document class in the XMLParser library of GWT client) with a format like follows:
<document><node id="0">content</node><node id="1">more content</node></document>
Given an ID, I need to insert a new node immediately after the node with that ID.
So far I've tried using insertBefore (as there is no insertAfter), but I must be using it incorrectly as nothing happens (apart from an UmbrellaException in the js console). I can't find any example usage via search engines.
My attempt is as follows (where n is the node I want to insert after):
Node nNext = n.getNextSibling(); //To get the next sibling to use it with insertBefore
Element newNode = doc.createElement("node");
newNode.appendChild(doc.createTextNode("new content")); //seems to work up until here
n.insertBefore(newNode, nNext); //so this line could be the problem?

insertBefore must be called on the parent node, so:
n.getParentNode().insertBefore(newNode, n.getNextSibling());

Problems setting a new node value in java, dom, xml parsing

I have the following code:
DocumentBuilder dBuilder = dbFactory_.newDocumentBuilder();
StringReader reader = new StringReader(s);
InputSource inputSource = new InputSource(reader);
Document doc_ = dBuilder.parse(inputSource);
and then I would like to create a new element in that node right under the root node with this code:
Node node = doc_.createElement("New_Node");
node.setNodeValue("New_Node_value");
doc_.getDocumentElement().appendChild(node);
The problem is that the node gets created and appended but the value isn't set. I don't know if I just can't see the value when I look at my xml if its hidden in some way but I don't think that's the case because I've tried to get the node value after the create node call and it returns null.
I'm new to xml and dom and I don't know where the value of the new node is stored. Is it like an attribute?
<New_Node value="New_Node_value" />
or does it put value here:
<New_Node> New_Node_value </New_Node>
Any help would be greatly appreciated,
Thanks, Josh

The following code:
Element node = doc_.createElement("New_Node");
node.setTextContent("This is the content"); //adds content
node.setAttribute("attrib", "attrib_value"); //adds an attribute
produces:
<New_Node attrib="attrib_value">This is the content</New_Node>
Hope this clarifies.

For clarification, when you create nodes use:
Attr x = doc.createAttribute(...);
Comment x = doc.createComment(...);
Element x = doc.createElement(...); // as #dogbane pointed out
Text x = doc.createTextNode(...);
instead of using the generic Node for what you get back from each method. It will make your code easier to read/debug.
Secondly, the getNodeValue() / setNodeValue() methods work differently depending on what type of Node you have. See the summary of the Node class for reference. For an Element, you can't use these methods, although for a Text node you can.
As #dogbane pointed out, use setTextContent() for the text between this element's tags. Note that this will destroy any existing child elements.

This is other solution, in my case this solution is working because the setTextContent() function not exist. I am working with Google Web Toolkit (GWT) (It is a development framework Java) and I am imported the XMLParser library for I can use DOM Parser.
import com.google.gwt.xml.client.XMLParser;
Document doc = XMLParser.createDocument();
Element node = doc.createElement("New_Node");
node.appendChild(doc.createTextNode("value"));
doc.appendChild(node);
The result is:
<New_Node> value </New_Node>

<New_Node value="New_Node_value" />
'value' is an attribute of
New_Node
element, for getting into DOM I suggest you http://www.w3schools.com/htmldom/default.asp