Reading XML file as String is not working properly

[Andrew Carney]

Hello

I am using the below code in order to read a file and convert it into a String.
When I read a text file it is fine however when i'm reading an xml file all I'm getting are the values of the XML attributes without any of the tags.
I'm assuming it has to be something with the encoding and was wondering if someone can help

BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
	
	    String line;
	    StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
	    while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) 
	    {
	    	sb.append(line);
	   	} 
	    br.close();
	    
	    return sb.toString();

[Carey Brown]

Looks like it's eating your new-lines.

[William Brogden]

all I'm getting are the values of the XML attributes

Exactly how are you looking at the resulting String?

Bill

[Paul Clapham]

Andrew Carney wrote:When I read a text file it is fine however when i'm reading an xml file all I'm getting are the values of the XML attributes without any of the tags.

Well, an XML file is a text file so that sounds wrong right away. However "getting the values of the attributes without any of the tags" can't possibly be done by the code you posted. So perhaps you could post the input and output of that code, so we can see what you mean by that statement?

[Andrew Carney]

Hi,

I think I know what is causing me this problem although still don't know how to fix it.

I wanted to keep my question simple so probably should have mentioned that the file is going through an object of type org.springframework.web.multipart.MultipartFile first (I am doing this through a Spring MVC application).
It looks like that MultipartFile is being too smart and is stripping the xml tags from the file, leaving me with just the values. I have tried with a couple of coding options and I always get the same result - From a simple standalone java application I get the content of the file correctly however when reading it through a MultipartFile object it strips the tags out. I have posted this in the springsource forum and hopefully someone will be able to help there.