Java XML Document Problem

steve04

Hi,
I'm having a problem when I create an xml
document and set the appropriate attributes I'm getting a 'null'
output. The code and output are as follows:

DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder docBuilder = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
Document doc = docBuilder.newDocument();

Element root = doc.createElement("status_tracking");
root.setAttribute("string","test");
System.out.println(root);

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Outputs: [status_tracking: null]

Any help appreciated.

Hobbes

That code works fine for me on 1.4.2 JVM.

What JVM are you using and make sure your Imports are correct.

steve04

Thanks hobbes,

The code is running on Java 1.4.

Are you getting the same debug displayed as: "[status_tracking: null]" or is the value that was inserted into the node being displayed?

Hobbes

I get this as output...

<status_tracking string="test" />

Here is the code I did.

import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;

import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;

public class docXmlSample {

	public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
		DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
		DocumentBuilder docBuilder = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
		Document doc = docBuilder.newDocument();

		Element root = doc.createElement("status_tracking");
		root.setAttribute("string","test");
		System.out.println(root);

	}

}

steve04

Thanks Hobbes,
I realised i was missing a jar when i saw you were getting the correct output