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How to convert and XML file into a String Object?

843834Sep 24 2009 — edited Sep 24 2009
Hi,

I have some problem converting an XML file to an String Object.

The code is shown below

public String convert(String fileName){

try{

DocumentBuilderFactory documentBuilderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
InputStream inputStream = new FileInputStream(new File(fileName));
org.w3c.dom.Document doc = documentBuilderFactory.newDocumentBuilder().parse(inputStream);
StringWriter stw = new StringWriter();
Transformer serializer = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();
serializer.transform(new DOMSource(doc), new StreamResult(stw));

//System.out.println(stw.toString());
return stw.toString();
}
catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return null;

}



and this is the error...

java.net.UnknownHostException: www.posc.org
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:177)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:519)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:469)
at sun.net.NetworkClient.doConnect(NetworkClient.java:157)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:382)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:494)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.<init>(HttpClient.java:231)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(HttpClient.java:304)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(HttpClient.java:316)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getNewHttpClient(HttpURLConnection.java:817)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect(HttpURLConnection.java:769)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.connect(HttpURLConnection.java:694)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:938)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLEntityManager.setupCurrentEntity(XMLEntityManager.java:973)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLEntityManager.startEntity(XMLEntityManager.java:905)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLEntityManager.startDTDEntity(XMLEntityManager.java:872)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDTDScannerImpl.setInputSource(XMLDTDScannerImpl.java:282)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$DTDDispatcher.dispatch(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:1021)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:368)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:834)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:764)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:148)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.DOMParser.parse(DOMParser.java:250)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(DocumentBuilderImpl.java:292)
at javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder.parse(DocumentBuilder.java:172)
at test.ConvertXMLFileToString.convertXMLFileToString(ConvertXMLFileToString.java:36)
at test.ConvertXMLFileToString.main(ConvertXMLFileToString.java:82)


Any idea how to solve this?

Many Thanks!

Khew
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