Submitted On 09-NOV-2004
ScottWPalmwe
Another workaround is to use a transformer to write the XML to a byte array and then construct a String from the UTF-8 bytes. (be sure to specify the encoding)
Submitted On 12-NOV-2004
ScottWPalmwe
This problem is rather serious for applications that used toString() in Java 1.4 write simple XML files. How did this get overlooked? And why does it have so few votes? Isn't this a total disaster that warrants a quick fix?
Submitted On 30-JAN-2005
sidthesloth
I got a solution and looks like this:
----------------- SOURCE --------------------------
import java.io.*;
import org.w3c.dom.*;
import javax.xml.parsers.*;
import org.xml.sax.*;
public class XMLtest {
private Document document;
private File testFile;
private PrintWriter pw;
public XMLtest() {
DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
try {
testFile = new File("test.xml");
DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
document = builder.parse(testFile);
test();
}
catch (SAXParseException spe) {
System.out.println("Parsing error" + ", line " + spe.getLineNumber() + ", uri " + spe.getSystemId());
System.out.println(" " + spe.getMessage());
Exception x = spe;
if (spe.getException() != null)
x = spe.getException();
x.printStackTrace();
}
catch (SAXException sxe) {
Exception x = sxe;
if (sxe.getException() != null)
x = sxe.getException();
x.printStackTrace();
}
catch (ParserConfigurationException pce) {
pce.printStackTrace();
}
catch (IOException ioe) {
ioe.printStackTrace();
}
}
private String getNode(Node node) {
String Node = "<" + node.getNodeName().toString();
if (node.hasAttributes()) {
for (int m = 0; m < node.getAttributes().getLength();m++) {
Node += " " + node.getAttributes().item(m).getNodeName();
Node += "=
Submitted On 30-JAN-2005
sidthesloth
private String getNode(Node node) {
String Node = "<" + node.getNodeName().toString();
if (node.hasAttributes()) {
for (int m = 0; m < node.getAttributes().getLength();m++) {
Node += " " + node.getAttributes().item(m).getNodeName();
Node += "='" + node.getAttributes().item(m).getNodeValue() + "'";
}
}
Node += ">";
if (!node.hasChildNodes()) {
Node += "</" + node.getNodeName().toString() + ">";
}
return Node;
}
private String getAllNodes(Node node) {
String document = "";
if (node.hasChildNodes()) {
for (int i = 0; i<node.getChildNodes().getLength();i++) {
document += getNode(node.getChildNodes().item(i));
document += getAllNodes(node.getChildNodes().item(i));
if (i == node.getChildNodes().getLength()-1) {
document += "</" + node.getNodeName().toString() + ">";
}
}
}
return document;
}
private String docToString() {
String newDocument = "";
Node node = document.getDocumentElement();
newDocument += "<" + node.getNodeName().toString() + ">";
if (node.hasAttributes()) {
for (int i =0; i<node.getAttributes().getLength(); i++) {
newDocument += node.getAttributes().item(i).getLocalName().toString();
}
}
newDocument += getAllNodes(node);
System.out.println(newDocument);
return newDocument;
}
private void test() {
try {
pw = new PrintWriter(new FileWriter(new File("output.xml")));
}
catch (IOException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
pw.println(docToString());
pw.close();
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
new XMLtest();
}
}
---------- END SOURCE --------------------------
for more complex xml-files this could consist some bugs! This programm just reads an xml-file and writes the content to another xml-file.
This program was tested under JDK 1.4.2_04 and 1.5.0_01 .
Submitted On 06-APR-2005
RichardFrederiksen
This bug is a real pain. I just got a related bug submission from a customer today and thought I was losing my mind. I wouldn't mind it so much if I thought there was any utility to the new string representation but its definitely not obvious to me.
Submitted On 19-MAY-2005
dgherrig
This is a real killer issue, I am very suprised this has not been fixx in the 03 updates,
Submitted On 25-MAY-2005
ScottWPalmwe
Why does the bug say fixed in 1.3.1 when the bug didn't exist until Java 5?? Based on the evaluation I can't even tell if the bug was really fixed, or if it is a
Submitted On 26-MAY-2005
edtyrrill
This implementation detail that they declined to fix is used all over in my application. If you don't want people to use functionality you depricate it, not remove it. Please fix this bug.
Submitted On 22-JUN-2005
Xibolba
In what release will this be available - 1.5.x, 1.6?
Submitted On 10-DEC-2005
sidthesloth
now ever better:
private String getNode(Node node) {
String Node = "<" + node.getNodeName().toString();
if (node.hasAttributes()) {
for (int m = 0; m < node.getAttributes().getLength();m++) {
Node += " " + node.getAttributes().item(m).getNodeName();
Node += "='" + node.getAttributes().item(m).getNodeValue() + "'";
}
}
Node += ">";
return Node;
}
private String getAllNodes(Node node) {
String document = "";
document += getNode(node);
if (node.hasChildNodes()) {
for (int i = 0; i<node.getChildNodes().getLength(); i++) {
document += getAllNodes(node.getChildNodes().item(i));
if (i == node.getChildNodes().getLength()-1) {
document += "</" + node.getNodeName() + ">";
}
}
} else {
document += "</" + node.getNodeName() + ">";
}
return document;
}
Just use the getAllNodes(Node) and you´ll get an String with the xml-document containing Node and all of it´s childnodes
Submitted On 05-JUN-2008
CarlG
All of the posted DIY solutions are going to have issues with entities, I think. The LSSerializer mentioned in the evaluation is much better, but not obvious how to use. Try:
public static String nodeToString(Node node){
DOMImplementation impl = node.getOwnerDocument().getImplementation();
DOMImplementationLS factory = (DOMImplementationLS) impl.getFeature("LS", "3.0");
LSSerializer serializer = factory.createLSSerializer();
return serializer.writeToString(node);
}
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