Hi Ian, I've never heard of XmlUtils.formatXmlAsString. It's certainly not distributed with Xerces. Have you tried one of the standard serialization methods [1] from JAXP or DOM Level 3?
Thanks. [1] http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/faq-general.html#faq-6 Michael Glavassevich XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: mrgla...@ca.ibm.com E-mail: mrgla...@apache.org Ian Hummel <hum...@parityinc.net> wrote on 12/15/2008 03:08:49 PM: > Hi Michael, > > I know <tag></tag> and <tag/> are the same, but unfortunately the > buggy-parser-that-cannot-be-changed on the other end doesn't :) > > DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder(); > Document d = db.newDocument(); > Element root = d.createElement("root"); > Element tag = d.createElement("tag"); > tag.setTextContent(""); > d.appendChild(root); > root.appendChild(tag); > System.out.println(XmlUtils.formatXmlAsString(d)); > > This always outputs <tag/> and never <tag></tag> like I need it to. > > - Ian. > > On Dec 12, 2008, at 10:33 PM, Michael Glavassevich wrote: > > Hi Ian, > > > I need to create XML that looks like this whenever the value of > > "tag" is "" (the empty string): > > > > <root> > > <tag></tag> > > </root> > > Why? <tag/> and <tag></tag> have the same meaning. Whichever form is > chosen by the serializer should have no significance. > > > I am more concerned in preserving the empty text node when I > > serialize to e.g. a file... not so much the parsing. > > > > Any one else have any ideas? > > Would help if you showed your code for serializing the document. > > > Are blank text nodes like that invalid XML or something? > > In the snippet you posted you created a text node with the '\t' > (tab) character in it. That isn't "blank" or empty. > > Thanks. > > Michael Glavassevich > XML Parser Development > IBM Toronto Lab > E-mail: mrgla...@ca.ibm.com > E-mail: mrgla...@apache.org > > Ian Hummel <hum...@parityinc.net> wrote on 12/12/2008 09:21:47 AM: > > > Hi, I didn't really understand how that's going to help. > > > > I am more concerned in preserving the empty text node when I > > serialize to e.g. a file... not so much the parsing. > > > > Any one else have any ideas? Are blank text nodes like that invalid > > XML or something? > > > > On Dec 11, 2008, at 11:53 AM, ravika...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > Hi Lan, > > > > I think we can Implement by LSParser Interface. http://java.sun. > > com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/org/w3c/dom/ls/LSParser.html > > this link may help you. > > > > Regards, > > Ravikanth > > > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 7:36 PM, Ian Hummel <hum...@parityinc.net> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I need to create XML that looks like this whenever the value of > > "tag" is "" (the empty string): > > > > <root> > > <tag></tag> > > </root> > > > > I've tried the following: > > > > DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); > > DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder(); > > Document d = db.newDocument(); > > Element root = d.createElement("root"); > > Element tag = d.createElement("tag"); > > d.appendChild(root); > > root.appendChild(tag); > > Text text = d.createTextNode("\t"); > > tag.appendChild(text); > > > > but I always end up with XML like this: > > > > <root> > > <tag/> > > </root> > > > > Is there a way to force empty text nodes to get "denormalized" ? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Ian. > > > > -- > > Ravikanth
