[timinator]

Well, due to the lack of response on my FTP issue, I'm now importing a XML file via email attachement, which works fine btw. However, I seem to be running into an issue with the XML parsing routines. My XML file is structured like this:
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
- <Category Name="Master">
- <SubCat Name="Sub">
<Item1>My Item</Item1>
<Item2>My Item2</Item2>
</SubCat Name>
</Category>

Here's my problem. I can parse out the Items just fine by using getNodeName() and getNodeValue(). But what do I use to get the values of Category Name and SubCat Name? Only docs that I've come across is the RIM source example which loops through the nodes and values between tags, but it doesn't address what I'm trying to do here.

[patrickh]

Those are attributes that are associated with the tag.

[timinator]

An example on how to use getAttribute would be nice. Or at least point me to an example or doc that describes how to use it.
I've tried using getAttribute, as seen below, but it raises a "java.lang.ClassCastException" exception.

ByteArrayInputStream stream = new ByteArrayInputStream(data.getBytes());
DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
factory.setIgnoringElementContentWhitespace(true);      
factory.setAllowUndefinedNamespaces(true);              
DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
Document doc = builder.parse(stream);
Element root = doc.getDocumentElement();
Element operation = (Element) root.getOwnerDocument();
String _layer = operation.getAttribute("Category");
System.out.println("Category: " + _layer);
NodeList list = doc.getElementsByTagName("*");
_node = new String();
_element = new String();
for (int i=0;i<list.getLength();i++) {
       Node value = list.item(i).getChildNodes().item(0);
       _node = list.item(i).getNodeName();
       _element = value.getNodeValue();
      System.out.println("Node:Element = " + _node + ":" + _element);
}

[patrickh]

You should be able to find in many JAXP DOM XML parsing example as it's a standard java API. Do a google search..

I suspect your line:
Element operation = (Element) root.getOwnerDocument();
is throwing the exception, not the getAttribute line.

- P

[timinator]

I've looked through a bunch of DOM discussions on the net but did not find anything that directly addressed what I'm trying to do. I'm thinking that the execption was happening because the first tag has <Category Name= (Two words with a space.) If I use a tag with only one word then it works fine.

[abx]

<SubCat Name="Sub">
.....
</SubCat Name>

I think this is no correct XML. Try </SubCat>

[timinator]

Unfortunately, the client has required the use of a tag with spaces in it. Tis okay. I wrote a custom parser that works just fine. Just wish I'd known about the DOM issue with spaces ahead of time. Tis part of the joy of programming - discovery! ;)