simple JAXPquestion

[Marina Smith]

I am tring to parse a simple xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<cp-datasource>
<name>name</name>
<password>password</password>
<url>url</url>
</cp-datasource>
DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
document = builder.parse(new File(file));
Node datasource = document.getDocumentElement();
NodeList l = datasource.getChildNodes();
System.out.println(l.getLength());
Node n = l.item(0);
Node p = l.item(1);
Node u = l.item(2);
Text name = (Text) n.getFirstChild();
Text password = (Text) p.getFirstChild();
Text url = (Text) u.getFirstChild();
System.out.println(name.getData());
System.out.println(password.getData());
System.out.println(url.getData());
System.out.println(l.getLength()); - returns 7
I get null pointer

Please help..

[Lasse Koskela]

Marina, the problem is that the XML parser parses whitespace into #text nodes, which causes the NodeList to be of length 7. You can fix this by either removing all whitespace from the XML document (everything on a single line) or by adding the necessary logic into your tree-traversing Java code for ignoring all whitespace nodes.