reading XML in JSP

[Nikki Agr]

Hi there,
I am trying to read an XML file using the DOM Parser in JSP. The only way it is working for me is when I refer to products.xml by its absolute path.

How do I make it work using its relative path?

<%Document doc = domparser.getDocument("C:/tomcat/webapps/food/products.xml"); traverseTree(doc, out);%>

Please advise, thanks!

[Sagar Rohankar]

you can get the context path , by

session.getServletContext().getContextPath() 

(Please check out API, I'm not remembering them now)

and append it the path relative path of .xml file (relative to web app)

Try this,,

[Bear Bibeault]

You really should not be doing this type of processing in a JSP. In any case, it's independent of JSP so I've moved this to a more appropriate forum.

[Paul Clapham]

Relative path? Well, that isn't anything to do with XML. That's a question about what the current working directory is in your application server, which appears to be Tomcat. But as I understand it, that's not defined by the servlet specification, so you shouldn't be relying on knowing what it is.

Something like what Sagar suggested should work, though.

[Yves Zoundi]

If you already use JSTL in your JSP pages, there are also tags libraries which could leverage your code.