XML Namespace handling?

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Hi,
I am having a typical problem here. Is there any way I can set a namespace to an XML string before I convert it into a Document. The problem is I have this XML string and I am trying to parse it, but I get a java.io.Nullpointer Exception because one of the tags in the XML string has a name space and I need to assign a name space to it here.

here's an example...

Following is my XML string say....

<metadata>
<schema>Schema 1</schema>
<schemaversion>DX:MD1.0 S:1.0</schemaversion>
<dlmd:record>Record</dlmd:record>
</metadata>

I need to parse this string, but I can not do it without setting a namespace for dlmd:record! Or is there a way I can do it without the namespace...I tried using the setNamespaceaware() option but it does not seem to work.

It's sort of strange as to why I need to assign a name space to it here...but thats the problem I have to deal with...

any help would be very much appreciated.

Thanks in advance
Prashanth

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I agree with your hunch. The parser should treat dlmd:record as just another element (colons are allowed in XML element names when namspace feature is turned off). Maybe you could elaborate a bit on what parser you're using, what Document (JDOM or DOM) you're building and where the exception comes from (io exception is kind of strange, too).

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Hi
I am using JAXP 1.1 and I am builidng a DOM document. The exception I get is a SAX Exception and the following is the stack trace

java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.parseInternal(Parser2.java:523)
at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.parse(Parser2.java:304)
at org.apache.crimson.parser.XMLReaderImpl.parse(XMLReaderImpl.java:433)
at org.apache.crimson.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(DocumentBuilderImpl.java:179)

at javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder.parse(DocumentBuilder.java:161)
at dlnet.DLXMLParse.dlDocumentBuild(DLXMLParse.java:282)
at dlnet.DLXMLParse.dlStart_Parse(DLXMLParse.java:50)
at dlnet.DLTrigger.main(DLTrigger.java:40)

Hope you can suggest a solution.....

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I see. I only tried xerces with your example and it was just fine. You're using Crimson, though and there seems to be a bug in crimson1.1. Go, get crimson1.1.1 from http://xml.apache.org and it'll parse fine.

Good luck,
Leo.

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Using the new version of Crimson does not help either. After I build the new Document Factory I set the namespace awareness to false and yet it gives me a sax exception......Could something else be wrong too!??

Thanks for your help....
Prashanth

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Prashanth,
this is what I'm doing. First, the parser test code:

import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;

public class JAXPDOMTest {

    public void domParse(String url) {
        DocumentBuilder parser;
        DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
        factory.setValidating(false);
        factory.setNamespaceAware(false);

        try {
            parser = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
            Document doc = parser.parse(url);

        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
    static public void main(String[] args)
    {
       JAXPDOMTest x=new JAXPDOMTest();
       x.domParse("test.xml");
    }
}

and here's test.xml:

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<metadata>
   <schema>Schema 1</schema>
   <schemaversion>DX:MD1.0 S:1.0</schemaversion>
   <dlmd:record>Record</dlmd:record>
</metadata>

jaxp-1.1 is my directory containing the official 1.1 release and my complete classpath look like this:
CLASSPATH=d:\xml_tools\jaxp-1.1\crimson.jar;d:\xml_tools\jaxp-1.1\jaxp.jar;.

I run the above (java JAXPDOMTest), I get:
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.parseInternal(Parser2.java:523)
at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.parse(Parser2.java:304)
at org.apache.crimson.parser.XMLReaderImpl.parse(XMLReaderImpl.java:433)

at org.apache.crimson.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(DocumentBuilderImpl.java:179)
at javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder.parse(DocumentBuilder.java:134)
at JAXPDOMTest.domParse(JAXPDOMTest.java:15)
at JAXPDOMTest.main(JAXPDOMTest.java:24)

I set the class path to:
CLASSPATH=d:\xml_tools\crimson-1.1.1\crimson.jar;d:\xml_tools\crimson-1.1.1\jaxp.jar;.

and, voila, no exception.

Hope that helps,
Leo.

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Hi

This is what I did just now....I created a file out of the pseudo string and passed it to be parsed with crimson.....it gives me an error irrespective of whether I turn Namespace awareness true or not!

What could the reason be?

Thanks
Prashanth

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Well, that seems to be classic dilemma. The same code works fine on my machine, but has trouble on yours. I'm running on 95 with JSDK 1.3 (build 1.3.0-C).
I'm afraid I can't help you any further, since I can't reproduce this behaviour.

Leo.

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Thanks anyways....guess I have to figure it out myself.
Prashanth

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It finally worked!!!! This is what I did. I had to delete the jar files in the \lib\ext directory of Java Runtime Environment and it started working. Thanks Leo you have been of great help.......

Prashanth

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Yeah, that's a valuable lesson. jar files in lib/ext, I believe, are accessed before stuff in the class path. Glad to hear it's working.