[jdom-interest] Build from a string of XML

[Pat Coulthard]

Try using the java.io.StringReader class.

SAXBuilder builder = new SAXBuilder();
String parseString = ...
Document doc = builder.build(new StringReader(parseString));

This is the way that I'm doing it.
Hope this helps.

Pat

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Pat Coulthard
Technical Specialist
Internet Scout Project
http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/
coulthar at cs.wisc.edu
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>I'm new to JDOM and new to XML.
>So far I have got as far as running PrettyPrint
>from JavaWorld and it works OK.
>
>I want to write an application that repeatedly
>goes through the following sequence:
>
>1) receive XML given to me as a java String by a comms API
>2) build java objects
>3) wade through the objects using the data to update a database
>
>I've looked at
>org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder.build(various options here)
>I don't see how to build from a String other than
>writing the XML to a file and then getting JDOM
>to read the file.
>
>Any ideas ?
>
>Regards ........ Vince
>
>
>
>
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