java dom question

[Ryan Gaffuri]

The sun walkthrough covers too many things other than straight DOM. I
am having trouble following it. I have a few questions

1. I need to download xerces.jar and put it in my class path to use
DOM right?
2. Can I read plain text into a DOM and have it create the xml for me?
If so how? Everything I see deals with having XML and a valid DTD or
Schema and having DOM verify it?

I read the W3Schools walkthrough, the sun walkthrough and the java
almanac.

 

[Alex Kizub]

The sun walkthrough covers too many things other than straight DOM. I
am having trouble following it. I have a few questions

1. I need to download xerces.jar and put it in my class path to use
DOM right?

If it will need something else it will tell you.

2. Can I read plain text into a DOM and have it create the xml for me?
If so how? Everything I see deals with having XML and a valid DTD or
Schema and having DOM verify it?

This is true when your "plain text" is xml ))
And you dont need DTD. Well formated xml (if you know what it is) ia all
what you need.
It's so easy and mentioned in thousands examples and tutorials.
DocumentBuilder xdb = XMLParserUtils.getXMLDocBuilder();
Document in = xdb.parse(new ByteArrayInputStream((byte[]) value));
That's all.

I read the W3Schools walkthrough, the sun walkthrough and the java
almanac.

Why not start with some SUN examples like
http://java.sun.com/webservices/docs/1.0/tutorial/doc/JAXPDOM3.html

Alex Kizub.