[jdom-interest] Displaying a JDOM objects data content - help needed

[Dimitrios Kolovos]

have you tried XMLOutputter?

Dimitrios

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From: "sal achhala" <sal at mellowmoose.org>
To: <jdom-interest at jdom.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 12:04 PM
Subject: [jdom-interest] Displaying a JDOM objects data content - help 
needed


>I have a problem with using JDOM to output contents of an xml file.
>
> I’ve used the rome api to output a rss feed as a JDOM object – this works 
> fine. However I want to output just the contents of the Jdom obect (minus 
> the xml tags) but im having problems with the following code.
>
> Code below outputs a jdom object, using the rome api, and its copied into 
> a jdom document
> Document doc = outputjdom.outputJDom(feed);
>
> Next im using the doc.toString() method ( part of jdom) to see if the 
> document holds the xml file.
>
> System.out.println(doc.toString());
>
> However, it doesn’t display the Document contents. where am I going wrong 
> ? and what do I need to do to start outputing the contents ? I think the 
> problem lies with the way im assigning the ouputted jdom object to a jdom 
> document here:
>
> Document doc = outputjdom.outputJDom(feed);
>
> any ideas would be appreciated.
>
> console output when the code is run:
>
> init:
> deps-jar:
> compile:
> run:
> [Document: No DOCTYPE declaration, Root is [Element: <rss/>]]
> content size is 1
> BUILD SUCCESSFUL (total time: 2 seconds)
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> /*
> * Created on Feb 23, 2005
> */
>
> import com.sun.syndication.feed.synd.SyndFeed;
> import com.sun.syndication.io.SyndFeedInput;
> import com.sun.syndication.io.XmlReader;
> import com.sun.syndication.io.SyndFeedOutput;
> import java.io.File;
> import java.io.StringReader;
> import java.net.URL;
>
> import org.jdom.output.XMLOutputter;
> import org.jdom.*;
> import org.jdom.Document;
> import org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder;
>
> import java.io.*;
> import java.util.*;
>
> /**
>  * It Reads and prints any RSS/Atom feed type.
> *
>  */
> public class FeedReader {
>
>     public static void main(String[] args) {
>
>         try {
>             URL feedUrl = new URL(args[0]);
>
>     //to read in & parse the rss/atom feed frm the internet
>     //based on the ROME API
>             SyndFeedInput input = new SyndFeedInput();
> //syndfeed is a bean interface which conatins the entire rss feed for 
> //the given URL
>
>         SyndFeed feed = input.build(new XmlReader(feedUrl));
>
>
>
> //prepare output of the retrieved feed as a Jdom object, xml string or 
> //write to a file
>         SyndFeedOutput outputjdom = new SyndFeedOutput();
>
> // will output feed as jdom
>             Document doc = outputjdom.outputJDom(feed);
>
>
> //doc.toString() is part of jdom – should output the document to console 
> System.out.println(doc.toString());
>
>
>          Element root = doc.getRootElement();
>     System.out.println("content size is "+root.getContentSize());
>         }//end try
>         catch (Exception ex) {
>             ex.printStackTrace();
>             System.out.println("ERROR: "+ex.getMessage());
>         }//catch
>
>     }//end main
>
> }//end class
>
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