Java & xml Problem

[Brian Terry]

I am new in Java. And asking for help.
The problem is to parse the XML doc and search the parse tree for the
value and then print path to it.
For instance:
XML document:
<1>
<2>
<3>value1</3>
<4>value2</4>
</2>
</1>
c:\ java XMLParser doc.xml value1
path is: 1 -> 2 -> 3

c:\ java XMLParser doc.xml value2
The path is: 1 -> 2 -> 4
Have any ideas?
Thanks for attention

 

[Tjerk Wolterink]

I am new in Java. And asking for help.
The problem is to parse the XML doc and search the parse tree for the
value and then print path to it.
For instance:
XML document:
<1>
<2>
<3>value1</3>
<4>value2</4>
</2>
</1>
c:\ java XMLParser doc.xml value1
path is: 1 -> 2 -> 3

c:\ java XMLParser doc.xml value2
The path is: 1 -> 2 -> 4
Have any ideas?
Thanks for attention

So you want us to give you the code??

Maybe you could try it yourself first.

 

[Brian Terry]

Ok,
i am using dom4j. And have such error:
'Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
org/dom4j/io/DOMReader'. Can u help me to solve it? The code is here:

import org.dom4j.Document;
import org.dom4j.Node;
import org.dom4j.io.DOMReader;

import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;

public class TestSearch {

public static void main(String[] args)
throws Exception {
if (args.length < 2) {
System.out.println("usage: TestSearch file value");
System.exit(0);
}
// parse a DOM tree
DocumentBuilderFactory factory =
DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
org.w3c.dom.Document domDocument = builder.parse(args[0]);

// Now convert to DOM4J model
DOMReader reader = new DOMReader();
Document document = reader.read(domDocument);

// List nodes with search value
List nodes = document.selectNodes("//*[starts-with(., '" + args[1] +
"')]");
for (Iterator it = nodes.iterator(); it.hasNext() {
Node node = (Node) it.next();
if (node.getText().equals(args[1])) {
System.out.println(node.getPath());
}
}

}

}

 

[Edwin Dankert]

Make sure to include dom4j on the classpath.

Regards,
Edwin