Miscellaneous Extensions
WebLogic provides a number of
miscellaneous extensions that ease the processing of XML data. For
instance, WebLogic extends the standard SAX input source. Instances
of the weblogic.xml.sax.XMLInputSource
class
enable you to retrieve document header information such as the name
of the root element or the public and system identifiers:
package weblogic.xml.sax; public class XMLInputSource extends org.xml.sax.InputSource { public String getNamespaceURI( ); public String getPublicId( ); public String getRootTag( ); public String getSystemId( ); //... }
This is useful when you need to decide how to process the XML data without having to complete a lengthy parse of a potentially large document. The following code snippet shows how to retrieve the root tag of an incoming XML document:
XMLInputSource xis = new XMLInputSource(new java.io.StringBufferInputStream("<theroot></theroot>")); System.err.println(xis.getRootTag( ));
In addition, WebLogic provides a JMS extension whereby XML messages may be filtered on the value of an XPath expression. We covered this in Chapter 8.
Parsing XML in a Servlet
WebLogic provides a proprietary but
convenient way for parsing the message body of an HTTP POST request
made to a servlet. It allows you to use the
setAttribute
and getAttribute
methods on the HttpServletRequest
object to parse XML documents. However, it is not a feature supported by other J2EE-compliant servlet engines. WebLogic provides two special-purpose attributes in ...
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