Document : set raw xml (java)

[jay vas]

Hi guys : Im trying to set the text in an XML document
in jave using the default java xml implementation (org.w3c.dom.)

Its not working ? I just want to set the raw xml text.

This is driving me crazy please help !???

 
Document d = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder().newDocument();
System.out.println("contents1:"+Utilities.Bean.describeXML(model));
d.setTextContent(Utilities.Bean.describeXML(model));
System.out.println("contents2:"+d.getTextContent());
 

[Paul Clapham]

An XML document can't consist of only text. It has to have a root element. That's why it's "not working", as you put it. Now if you went to the root element of the document and tried to set its content to some text, that probably wouldn't throw any exceptions.

[jay vas]

Thanks !

So then is there any simple way in the java document api way to go from raw text (a String) to a Document object without a file name ?

[Paul Clapham]

Document objects don't have a file name. I don't understand this question at all. Perhaps you could explain what you are really trying to do.

[jay vas]

Thanks again. Well its pretty simple. I want to create a create a Document object which represents a string...I want to be able to do something like this...

String xml="<xml><name>jay</name><comment>Why do we need xml if we have rdbms technology anyways</comment></xml>";
 
Document n = Document.buildFromRawXml(xml);

[Paul Clapham]

Oh, I see. You have a String containing XML and you want to parse it into a Document. Like this:

Document doc = builder.parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(theString)));