jersey and xml

[bryan lim]

hi all,

i wanted to return a webpage as application/xml document.
below is my code. the returned value appears like a string in browser. However when i view the source, it is in xml.


java code

   public class Resource{

    @GET 
    @Produces("application/xml")
    public String getClichedMessage() {

    	Db_forum db_forum = new Db_forum();
    	DB_Accessor db_accessor = new DB_Accessor();
    	String[][] data = db_accessor.getDataFromOS();
    	return 	db_forum.returnResult2(data, 0);
    }
} 

returnResult2() simply return a string. and the string is below:

  <?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"ISO-8859-1\" ?> <company><title>value1</title ><date>value2</date ><time>value3</time ><url>value4</url > <company> 

this is what appear in the webpage.

  value1value2value3value4  

this is what appears in the source code.

 <company><title>value1</title ><date>value2</date ><time>value3</time ><url>value4</url > <company>  

can someone advice me? i want to return the xml like a xml document (with indentation). instead of just a one liner string.

[William Brogden]

The web page looks like that because the browser only obeys HTML tags and doesn' t know what to do with yours.

An XML document as a single line is perfectly valid and should be understood by any XML parser.

Bill

[bryan lim]

Sorry for the multiple post.

is there any solution to allow the browser to display the string as xml format?


thanks!

[bryan lim]

i want to do something like this. anybody know if it is possible? thanks!

http://www.w3schools.com/XML/note.xml

[Campbell Ritchie]

Not a "beginner's" question. Moving.

[Paul Clapham]

What is "application/xml" supposed to mean? Why not just "text/xml" for the MIME type?

[William Brogden]

s there any solution to allow the browser to display the string as xml format?

Sure - you can substitute escaped characters for the < and > used to delineate xml tags, you can use the method in String class but it would be kind of time consuming for so many tags. The browser will display < and > in place of the excaped character string.

This ranch FAQ gives one example of "pretty printing" XML with indentation but I found more with a google search "java pretty print xml"

Bill