[jdom-interest] Problems Creating a Document

[Hunter Hillegas]

It seems to have mysteriously started working.

Now I need to go back and see what I did.


> From: "Godbey, David" <DAVID.J.GODBEY at saic.com>
> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 13:04:33 -0500
> To: 'Hunter Hillegas' <timebomb at west.net>, jdom-interest at jdom.org
> Subject: RE: [jdom-interest] Problems Creating a Document
> 
> HttpURLConnection.getContentType.
> 
> Hmm, what else? 
> 1. If the submitter sent UTF on the DataStream and you are reading regular
> chars instead of UTF, you will have a problem due to the length bytes in
> front of the string.
> 
> 2. Try trimming the string before feeding it to the parser.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Dave
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hunter Hillegas [mailto:timebomb at west.net]
> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 11:54 AM
> To: Godbey, David
> Cc: jdom-interest at jdom.org
> Subject: Re: [jdom-interest] Problems Creating a Document
> 
> 
> Hmmmm... The output stream side is not controlled by me unfortunately, it is
> controlled by UPS.
> 
> Any way for me to figure out what ContentType they are sending?
> 
>> From: "Godbey, David" <DAVID.J.GODBEY at saic.com>
>> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 08:12:35 -0500
>> To: 'Hunter Hillegas' <timebomb at west.net>, jdom-interest at jdom.org
>> Subject: RE: [jdom-interest] Problems Creating a Document
>> 
>> Hunter,
>> I saw this error message just yesterday. I fixed it by adding on the
> output
>> stream side 
>> resObj.setContentType("text/xml; encoding=UTF-8"); where resObj is
>> instantiated from the HttpServletResponse class. I hope this helps.
>> Dave
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Hunter Hillegas [mailto:timebomb at west.net]
>> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 3:05 AM
>> To: jdom-interest at jdom.org
>> Subject: [jdom-interest] Problems Creating a Document
>> 
>> 
>> Hello. I am somewhat new to JDOM. I have used it several times for small
>> projects but now I am trying to use it in a J2EE project and I'm having
> some
>> trouble...
>> 
>> Basically I am getting this exception:
>> 
>> org.jdom.JDOMException: Error on line 1: Document root element is missing.
>> 
>> This is how I'm setting up my JDOM session:
>> 
>> InputStream in = urlCon.getInputStream();
>> SAXBuilder builder = new SAXBuilder();
>> Document doc = builder.build(in);
>> Element docRoot = doc.getRootElement(); //get the root
>> 
>> I have verified that the InputStream does seem to have access to valid XML
>> that looks like this:
>> 
>> <?xml version="1.0"?>
>> <RatingServiceSelectionResponse>
>> <Response>
>>   <TransactionReference>
>>     <CustomerContext>Rating and Service</CustomerContext>
>>     <XpciVersion>1.0001</XpciVersion>
>>   </TransactionReference>
>>   <ResponseStatusCode>1</ResponseStatusCode>
>>   <ResponseStatusDescription>Success</ResponseStatusDescription>
>> </Response>
>> <RatedShipment>
>>   <Service>
>>     <Code>01</Code>
>>   </Service>
>>   <BillingWeight>
>>     <UnitOfMeasurement>
>>       <Code>LBS</Code>
>>     </UnitOfMeasurement>
>>     <Weight>2.0</Weight>
>>   </BillingWeight>
>> ... There is a lot more...
>> 
>> I'm trying to use this to communicate with UPS to get shipping info...
>> 
>> So, I have pretty much no idea how to debug this... Any suggestions are
>> appreciated.
>> 
>> Hunter
>> 
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