[jdom-interest] reading web.xml

[james todd]

i wonder if "/web.xml" vs "/WEB-INF/web.xml" will work given everything
*under* WEB-INF is web application root.

hth,

- james

Alex Colic wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I hope someone call help with reading the web.xml file of a web app. I want
> to create a nice web page for the user to edit these values.
> 
> I am getting an error parsing the file. In the parse method creating the
> document failed.
> My code is as follows:
> 
> In my servlet:
> 
>   String webConfig="/WEB-INF/web.xml";
>   ServletContext context = servlet.getServletContext();
>   InputStream input = context.getResourceAsStream(webConfig);
>   if (input == null)
>       throw new UnavailableException("web.xml file cannot be found");
>   try
>     {
>       pwXMLUtility util=new pwXMLUtility(input);//my rapper class
>     }
>   catch(Exception e){}
> 
> In my wrapper class:
> public pwXMLUtility(InputStream in) throws rdXMLException,  IOException
>     {
>       DataInputStream reader=new DataInputStream(in);
>       StringBuffer buf=new StringBuffer();
>       String strCurrentLine;
>       while(true)
>         {
>           strCurrentLine=reader.readLine();
>           if(strCurrentLine==null) break;
>           buf.append(strCurrentLine);
>         }
>       strDocument=buf.toString();
>       parseDoc();
> 
>     }
> 
> public void parseDoc () throws rdXMLException {
> 
>         SAXBuilder builder=new SAXBuilder(false);
> 
>         try
>           {
>               Document doc=builder.build(new
> StringReader(getRawDocument()));
>               setXMLDocument(doc);
>           }
>         catch(Exception e)
>           {
>             System.out.println("pwXMLUtility: exception " + e.getMessage());
>             throw new rdXMLException(" Could not build xml document");
>           }
>     }           //parseDoc
> 
> }
> 
> Being new to XML any help, guidance, code corrections etc. is highly
> appreciated.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Alex
> 
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