LF Example parsing XML from a string not a file

[Bob Sparks]

Say this may seem odd but I can't find an example of how to parse XML
that is passed in a string and not a file. All the examples assume you
want to parse a file not a a chunk of memory already read in.

Does any one have an example on the web?

Bob

 

[Toni Uusitalo]

Maybe it works the same way in your mysterious programming language (whose
name you don't want us to know ;-) ) as in Java where
you construct InputSource from StringReader
see (look for StringReader)

http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/books/xmljava/chapters/ch07s02.html#d0e10201

with respect,
Toni Uusitalo

 

[Bob Sparks]

Thanks

I did this

docBuilder.parse( new InputSource( new StringReader( userClassTree.toString() ) ) );

Now I need to figure out how to get the parser to decode
"S & M toys" to
"S & M toys" when I getAttribute.

From reading the what Toni provided it looks like I need to setEncoding().

Bob

 

[Toni Uusitalo]

&whatever; constructs are entities (or < like things which are called
character references), they've got nothing to do with encoding. &amp; and 4
four other
predefined entities SHOULD have been decoded/expanded when your document
has been parsed i.e. you should get your "SAX & Markup toys" properly.
Check you parser's settings if there's something that preserves those
predefined entities.
(my Java xml parsing is a bit rusty at the moment, maybe somebody else could
help)

encoding: to put it short it's format in which you save/serialize your
document. When you load it you must have proper <? xml version="1.0"
encoding="whatever"?> set unless you're using (saved as) UTF-8 which is
default for parser if no encoding is specified.

http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/books/xmljava/ could give you answer on this too,
I recommend reading it, very useful book. reading it might be a bit on the S
&amp; M side for xml beginner in cos it's so detailed, but it's very good
book.

with respect,
Toni Uusitalo

Thanks

I did this

docBuilder.parse( new InputSource( new StringReader(

userClassTree.toString() ) ) );

 

[GIMME]

Something like this ...

Document doc = (new SAXBuilder()).build( new StringReader(xml));