[plevintampabay]

I need to write an org.w3c.dom.Document to a String. I have a feeling I'll be using net.rim.device.api.xml.jaxp.XMLWriter, but the small example given in the API page on how to use that class, uses a SAXParser and an inputStream - which has nothing to do with a DOM.

[zechariahs]

I've been using the SaxParser.

SaxHandler sample:

package com.schwenkconsulting.blackping.xml;

import org.xml.sax.Attributes;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler;

public class ResultHandler extends DefaultHandler
{
	private boolean m_bInMessage	= false;
	private boolean m_bInKey		= false;
	
	private String m_sStatus;
	private String m_sMessage;
	private String m_sKey;
	
	public void startDocument() throws SAXException
	{
	}

	public void endDocument() throws SAXException 
	{
	     // Nothing to do
	}

/** Gets be called on opening tags like:
 * <tag>
 * Can provide attribute(s), when xml was like:
 * <tag attribute="attributeValue">*/

	public void startElement(String namespaceURI, String localName,
	          String qName, Attributes atts) throws SAXException 
	{
		if(localName.equalsIgnoreCase("rsp"))
		{
			String sStatus = atts.getValue("status");
			setStatus(sStatus);
	    }
		else if(localName.equalsIgnoreCase("message"))
		{
			m_bInMessage = true; 
		}
		else if(localName.equalsIgnoreCase("key"))
		{
			m_bInKey = true;
		}
	}
	
	public void characters(char ch[], int start, int length) 
	{
        if(this.m_bInMessage)
        {
        	setMessage(new String(ch, start, length));
        }
        else if(m_bInKey)
        {
        	setKey(new String(ch, start, length));
        }
	}

/** Gets be called on closing tags like:
 * </tag> */

	public void endElement(String namespaceURI, String localName, String qName) throws SAXException 
	{
		if(localName.equalsIgnoreCase("message"))
		{
			m_bInMessage = false; 
		}
		else if(localName.equalsIgnoreCase("key"))
		{
			m_bInKey = false; 
		}
	}

	public String getStatus()
	{
		return m_sStatus;
	}
	
	public void setStatus(String status)
	{
		m_sStatus = status;
	}

	public String getMessage()
	{
		return m_sMessage;
	}

	public void setMessage(String message)
	{
		m_sMessage = message;
	}

	public String getKey()
	{
		return m_sKey;
	}

	public void setKey(String key)
	{
		m_sKey = key;
	}
}

Reading XML From an Input Stream

public static void parseXML(HttpConnection a_oCon, DefaultHandler a_oSAXHandler) throws IOException, ParserConfigurationException, SAXException
	{
		InputStream s = null;
		StringBuffer sbXMLResult = new StringBuffer();
		try 
		{
			s = a_oCon.openInputStream();
			int ch;
			while ((ch = s.read()) != -1) 
			{
				char cChar = (char) ch;
				sbXMLResult.append(cChar);
			}
		} 
		finally 
		{
			if (s != null)
				s.close();
		}
		
		ByteArrayInputStream bs = new ByteArrayInputStream(sbXMLResult.toString().getBytes());
		SAXParser saxParser = SAXParserFactory.newInstance().newSAXParser();
		saxParser.parse(bs, a_oSAXHandler);
		
	}

[plevintampabay]

Thank you for the reply zechariahs.
Your's is an excellent reply.
To be completely accurate to what I wanted, one would have to implement a TreeWalker - something to traverse the nodes of the DOM, calling a handler, similiar to the one you wrote.

It so happens that since my development is targeting 4.2 devices (older devices like 8820), some of the XML packages in 4.7 aren't available to me.
As a result, I just finished implementing my own DOM, TreeWalker, Renderer and several other XML related components. Everything finally builds. Tomorrow I'll start testing and debugging.