runtime Error using SAX parser

[Pooja Agarwal]

Hai..

I am using the following code to parse an XML called as order.xml.
I am using SAX parser to do so.
i have set the class path for JAXP.jar and Parser.jar in my class path.
The code is compiling fine but when i execute the code its giving an error.

C:\javaexamples>java ExtractorDriver order.xml
org.xml.sax.SAXException: System property org.xml.sax.driver not specified

It says "System property org.xml.sax.driver not specified".

Can any one let me know how to over come the error.

CODE
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TextExtractor.java
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import org.xml.sax.*;
import java.io.*;

public class TextExtractor implements ContentHandler {

private Writer out;

public TextExtractor(Writer out) {
this.out = out;
}

public void characters(char[] text, int start, int length)
throws SAXException {

try {
out.write(text, start, length);
}
catch (IOException e) {
throw new SAXException(e);
}

}

// do-nothing methods
public void setDocumentLocator(Locator locator) {}
public void startDocument() {}
public void endDocument() {}
public void startPrefixMapping(String prefix, String uri) {}
public void endPrefixMapping(String prefix) {}
public void startElement(String namespaceURI, String localName,
String qualifiedName, Attributes atts) {}
public void endElement(String namespaceURI, String localName,
String qualifiedName) {}
public void ignorableWhitespace(char[] text, int start,
int length) throws SAXException {}
public void processingInstruction(String target, String data){}
public void skippedEntity(String name) {}

} // end TextExtractor



ExtractorDriver.java
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import org.xml.sax.*;
import org.xml.sax.helpers.XMLReaderFactory;
import java.io.*;


public class ExtractorDriver {

public static void main(String[] args) {

if (args.length <= 0) {
System.out.println(
"Usage: java ExtractorDriver url"
);
return;
}

try {
XMLReader parser = XMLReaderFactory.createXMLReader();

Writer out = new OutputStreamWriter(System.out);
ContentHandler handler = new TextExtractor(out);
parser.setContentHandler(handler);

parser.parse(args[0]);

out.flush();
}
catch (Exception e) {
System.err.println(e);
}

}

}

Order.xml
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
- <Order>
<Customer id="c32">Chez Fred</Customer>
- <Product>
<Name>Birdsong Clock</Name>
<SKU>244</SKU>
<Quantity>12</Quantity>
<Price currency="USD">21.95</Price>
</Product>
- <ShipTo>
<Street>135 Airline Highway</Street>
<City>Narragansett</City>
<State>RI</State>
<Zip>02882</Zip>
</ShipTo>
<Subtotal currency="USD">263.40</Subtotal>
<Tax rate="7.0" currency="USD">18.44</Tax>
<Shipping method="USPS" currency="USD">8.95</Shipping>
<Total currency="USD">290.79</Total>
</Order>

[Mark Spritzler]

Pooja, welcome to Javaranch.

I need to move this thread to a more appropriate forum. This forum is for Servlets question. Your question is about SAX and XML.

Also there is a set of buttons under the Add Reply button when creating a thread or a reply. These buttons can really help with formatting. The one that says "CODE" can create tags that wrap around code and it will keep its format/tabbing/and spacing, to make nice and easy to read code.

Thanks

Mark

[Lasse Koskela]

Do you have a SAX parser implementation in your classpath?
If it is, and the XMLReaderFactory still complains about the system property missing, I guess you need to add it yourself (java ... -Dorg.xml.sax.driver=com.parser.impl.BlahBlah ... MyApplication).

PS. it's better to use the javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory class from JAXP instead of the older XMLReaderFactory.