Thread: Problems with Formatted Output XML File

I am trying to use Java to convert a .txt file to a .xml format
It successfully parses the text file to an xml file. The problem is I'm having issues getting all the tags I'd like.
This is a sample of what my input text file looks like:

<DOC>
<DOCNO>3393</DOCNO>
<TEXT>
      Biblical Traditions  
</TEXT>
</DOC>
 
<DOC>
<DOCNO>42027</DOCNO>
<TEXT>
    Automobiles   
</TEXT>
</DOC>
 
<DOC>
<DOCNO>7456</DOCNO>
<TEXT>
     Fruits and Vegetables
</TEXT>
</DOC>

When I am finished with my current code, the outputted parsed xml file looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<DOC>
    <DOC>
        <TEXT></TEXT>
    </DOC>
    <DOC>
        <TEXT/>
    </DOC>
    <DOC>
        <TEXT/>
    </DOC>
    <DOC>
        <TEXT>      Biblical Traditions            </TEXT>
    </DOC>
    <DOC>
        <TEXT/>
    </DOC>
    <DOC>
        <TEXT/>
    </DOC>
    <DOC>
        <TEXT/>
    </DOC>
    <DOC>
        <TEXT/>
    </DOC>
    <DOC>
        <TEXT/>
    </DOC>
    <DOC>
        <TEXT/>
    </DOC>
    <DOC>
        <TEXT/>
    </DOC>
    <DOC>
        <TEXT>    Automobiles   </TEXT>
    </DOC>
    <DOC>
        <TEXT/>
    </DOC>
    <DOC>
        <TEXT/>
    </DOC>

It's creating redundant <DOC> and <TEXT> tags. Here is my current code. I need help modifying it to include the <DOCNO> tag:

package convert;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FileReader;
import javax.xml.*;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
import javax.xml.transform.OutputKeys;
import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;
import org.w3c.dom.*;
 
 
public class convertToXML {
	BufferedReader in;
	StreamResult out;
 
	Document xmldoc;
	Element root;
 
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		new convertToXML().doit();
	}
 
	public void doit() {
		try {
			in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("C:\\text.txt"));
			out = new StreamResult("C:\\newXML.xml");
			initXML();
			String str;
			while ((str = in.readLine()) != null) {
				process(str);
			}
			in.close();
			writeXML();
		}
		catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); }
	}
 
	public void initXML() throws ParserConfigurationException {
	//JAXP + DOM
	DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
	DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
	DOMImplementation impl = builder.getDOMImplementation();
 
	xmldoc = impl.createDocument(null,  "DOC", null); 
	root = xmldoc.getDocumentElement();
}
 
public void process(String s) {
	//Escape character 
	String [] elements = s.split("\\<");
	Element e0 = xmldoc.createElement("DOC");
 
	Element e1 = xmldoc.createElement("TEXT");
	Node n1 = xmldoc.createTextNode(elements[0]);
	e1.appendChild(n1);
 
	//Element e2 = xmldoc.createElement("TEXT");
	//Node n2 = xmldoc.createTextNode(elements[1]);
	//e2.appendChild(n2);
 
	e0.appendChild(e1);
	//e0.appendChild(e2);
	root.appendChild(e0);
}
 
public String writeXML() throws TransformerConfigurationException, TransformerException {
	DOMSource domSource = new DOMSource(xmldoc);
	TransformerFactory tf = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
	Transformer transformer = tf.newTransformer();
 
	transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.METHOD, "xml");
	transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.ENCODING, "UTF-8");
	transformer.setOutputProperty("{http://xml.apache.org/xslt}indent-amount", "4");
	transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT, "yes");
 
	transformer.transform(domSource, out);
 
	java.io.StringWriter sw = new java.io.StringWriter();
	StreamResult sr = new StreamResult(sw);
	transformer.transform(domSource,  sr);
	return sw.toString();
}
}

Originally Posted by Norm

Continuation of this: http://www.javaprogrammingforums.com...tml#post157220

I agree. I'm trying to code it myself. Could not find any useful tools online to suit my needs. Parsing it later down the road I always ran into errors.
If anyone could provide insight with parsing the text tags that would be great.

Cheers.

Originally Posted by Norm

The txt file looks like it's in xml format. What happens if you wrap it in some tags: <OUTER> and </OUTER>

I tried using <OUTER> tags and trying to parse it.
Even with the encoding

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>

tag defined at the top I still get this error:

The markup in the document following the root element must be well-formed

Don't know why it's doing that. The way the client defined their input file is

<DOC>
<DOCNO>12345</DOCNO>
<TEXT>Title of Book</TEXT>
</DOC>

And there's about 500 of those in a single file. Don't understand how it doesn't follow a particular form.

Originally Posted by Norm

What program gives that error message? I'm opening the file in Firefox browser.
It gives a message:
This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.

Here is the file it reads:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<OUTER>
<DOC>
<DOCNO>3393</DOCNO>
<TEXT>
      Biblical Traditions  
</TEXT>
</DOC>
 
<DOC>
<DOCNO>42027</DOCNO>
<TEXT>
    Automobiles   
</TEXT>
</DOC>
 
<DOC>
<DOCNO>7456</DOCNO>
<TEXT>
     Fruits and Vegetables
</TEXT>
</DOC>
</OUTER>

I am now able to parse some of the XML. I encounter a new error, however.

The entity "eacute" was referenced, but not declared.

I was reading online and apparently I need to define "eacute" within the DTD tags of the XML file. How would I go about doing that?