Appending nodes to Elements
Hi,
I am trying to use DOM for creating an XML file based on a String array that I give on input.
My problem is that as I am iterating through the array and appending the Child for the Element, in the output XML I am not seeing them as separate entities.
Example:
If my input is a String array with the following: {myInput1, myInput2}
My current output looks like this:
<Result>
<Value>myInput1myInput2</value>
and what I need to get is
<Result>
<Value>myInput1</Value>
<Value>myInput2</Value>
This is how I am trying to add the nodes:
Element myResult = xmldoc.createElement("Result");
Element myValue = xmldoc.createElement("Value");
myResult.appendChild(myValue);
for(int i = 0 ; i < myArray.length ; i++)
{
Node actualValue = xmldoc.createTextNode(myArray);
myValue.appendChild(actualValue);
}
I am not sure if my approach is wrong, can anyone help with this?
Thanks!
[1078 byte] By [
desimundaa] at [2007-11-26 22:48:49]
If you want more than one Value element, then you should write code that creates more than one Value element.
> I am not sure if my approach is wrong
I don't understand this statement. Your output is not what you want it to be. Therefore your code is wrong. What's so hard to understand about that?
>If you want more than one Value element, then you should write code that creates more than one Value element.
When I am getting an array input how can I dynamically create a separate node element for each array element?
> I don't understand this statement. Your output is not what you want it to be. Therefore your code is wrong. What's so hard to understand about that?
I am not getting compiler errors, so code is not wrong. That is why I said 'if my approach is wrong'. It means is there something wrong with the method/algorithm of creating nodes on separate lines. I hope you understand the difference now.
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Updated code to specify array elements that are being picked but still not output as expected
Element myResult = xmldoc.createElement("Result");
Element myValue = xmldoc.createElement("Value");
myResult.appendChild(myValue);
for(int i = 0 ; i < myArray.length ; i++)
{
Node actualValue = xmldoc.createTextNode(myArray);
myValue.appendChild(actualValue);
}
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