Why can't I read this XML message via Java?

Question

I have the following XML, and I cannot access the tag <description>.

https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ck6mq.jpg

A simpler XML I can read well, but this I cannot.

Parsing code follows:

xmlFile = new File(route);
documentFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();   
documentBuilder = documentFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
doc = documentBuilder.parse(xmlFile);
doc.getDocumentElement().normalize();

Can you just post the Xml as part of your question, photographed code is unpleasant. — Newd, Jul 14 '15 at 19:53

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:29

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The comprobante element has an XML declaration in it:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

An XML declaration may only appear once in an XML document and may only occur at the very top. Anything else prevents the file from being well-formed and will preclude use of conformant XML tools. You must remove the extraneous XML declaration if you want to treat this data as XML.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:29

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answered Jul 14 '15 at 20:17

kjhughes

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xml get me that way, I can not change it, but I read it. :( – wagego Jul 15 '15 at 02:45

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 15 '15 at 04:28

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the comprobante element contains another xml as text node. It is that nested xml which contains description element you are searching for. what you can do is:

doc = documentBuilder.parse(xmlFile);
element = get comprobante element from doc
InputSource is = new InputSource(new StringReader(element.getTextContent());
doc = documentBuilder.parse(is);
now search for description element in this doc

answered Jul 15 '15 at 04:28

Santhosh Kumar Tekuri

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EXCELLENT, I made a method to parse this part of code and I can now seamlessly access that data. Thank you very much for the help! – wagego Jul 15 '15 at 16:13

Why can't I read this XML message via Java?

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