Re: using XML as a string in Java client

[Pete Roth]

Thanks for the code.  This is helpful but would of been the next problem.
What I really need though is a way use that String with the Apache libs.  So
that instead of having the Apache libs build the XML.  I could pass the XML
stored in a String ,which the below method built, to the Apache libraries.  

Does anyone know how to do this?

Thanks.

Peter Roth
Telemetry Technologies Inc.
p: 404.231.0021 ext. 1290
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrote:----

List:     soap-dev
Subject:  Re: using XML as a string in Java client      
From:     [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date:     2001-07-26 13:31:30

Peter,
     We're doing exactly what you're trying to do...I would recommend not
building a string and converting to xml...here is a test method that uses
the apache utils package for writing out a dom document to a  string....

protected static String getSourceDocument(String aURL) throws Exception {
     //Read in an XML file that is hardcoded for testing purposes
     DOMParser myparser = new DOMParser();
     //myparser.parse(new
InputSource("file:///d:/somedirectory/Version1.0/receiveinventory.XML"));
     myparser.parse(new InputSource(aURL));
     Document doc = myparser.getDocument();
     Element root = doc.getDocumentElement();

     //Strip out the carriage reutrns and line feeds (SOAP does NOT like
them)
     String lsdoc = DOMWriter.nodeToString(root);
     char lsfind = '\r';
     char lsreplace = '\u0020';
     String lsdoc2 = lsdoc.replace(lsfind,lsreplace);
     lsfind = '\n';
     lsdoc2 = lsdoc2.replace(lsfind,lsreplace);

     //WRAP the string in a CDATA section since SOAP does NOT like strings
with tags...
     String ls_read = new String("<![CDATA["+lsdoc2+"]]>");
     return ls_read;
}