how to remove blank spaces in xml

[madhuriks]

hi,
i tried to delete an element in xml..for that i used servlet coding...it is getting deleted but blank spaces are remaining i dont want that blank spaces..can any one do me needfull..here is my code.. its urgent

  

private void delNode(java.io.File file, Document parent, String filtervalue)
              throws Exception
      {
        NodeList nodeList = parent.getElementsByTagName("PACK_NAME");
        for (int i = 0; i < nodeList.getLength(); i++) {
            Node child = nodeList.item(i);
            System.out.println("child " + child.getTextContent());
            if (child.getTextContent() != null && child.getTextContent().trim().equalsIgnoreCase(filtervalue.trim())) {
               
                Node packNode = child.getParentNode().getParentNode();
                Node packsNode = parent.getFirstChild();
                packsNode.removeChild(packNode);

                break;
            }
        }
}

thanks in advance,
madhu.

[madhuriks]

hi,
can anyone provide me the solution for the post i posted

[jkmyoung]

Can you show an example of where this is occurring? The blank spaces don't seem to be inserted anywhere -> they probably pre-exist so you will have to remove those too.

[madhuriks]

hi gud mrng,
my xml file is as follows

xml file before deletion

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<PACKS>
<MA00>
<GENERAL>
<PACK_NAME>WAP_00</PACK_NAME>
<ACT_STATUS>MA00</ACT_STATUS>
<DEACT_STATUS>MD00</DEACT_STATUS>
<ALLOW_POSTPAID>TYPE,2:</ALLOW_POSTPAID>
<SHORT_CODE>1</SHORT_CODE>
<ACT_KEYWORD>MOM</ACT_KEYWORD>
<DEACT_KEYWORD>UMO</DEACT_KEYWORD>
</GENERAL>
</MA00>
<MA01>
<GENERAL>
<PACK_NAME>WAP_01</PACK_NAME>
<ACT_STATUS>MA01</ACT_STATUS>
<DEACT_STATUS>MD01</DEACT_STATUS>
<ALLOW_POSTPAID>TYPE,2:</ALLOW_POSTPAID>
<SHORT_CODE>1</SHORT_CODE>
<ACT_KEYWORD>MOM</ACT_KEYWORD>
<DEACT_KEYWORD>UMO</DEACT_KEYWORD>
</GENERAL>
</MA01>
<MA02>
<GENERAL>
<PACK_NAME>WAP_02</PACK_NAME>
<ACT_STATUS>MA02</ACT_STATUS>
<DEACT_STATUS>MD02</DEACT_STATUS>
<ALLOW_POSTPAID>TYPE,2:</ALLOW_POSTPAID>
<SHORT_CODE>1</SHORT_CODE>
<ACT_KEYWORD>MOM</ACT_KEYWORD>
<DEACT_KEYWORD>UMO</DEACT_KEYWORD>
</GENERAL>
</MA02>
</PACKS>

if i delete <MA01> then the o/p xml file is

xml file after deletion

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<PACKS>
<MA00>
<GENERAL>
<PACK_NAME>WAP_00</PACK_NAME>
<ACT_STATUS>MA00</ACT_STATUS>
<DEACT_STATUS>MD00</DEACT_STATUS>
<ALLOW_POSTPAID>TYPE,2:</ALLOW_POSTPAID>
<SHORT_CODE>1</SHORT_CODE>
<ACT_KEYWORD>MOM</ACT_KEYWORD>
<DEACT_KEYWORD>UMO</DEACT_KEYWORD>
</GENERAL>
</MA00>

<MA02>
<GENERAL>
<PACK_NAME>WAP_02</PACK_NAME>
<ACT_STATUS>MA02</ACT_STATUS>
<DEACT_STATUS>MD02</DEACT_STATUS>
<ALLOW_POSTPAID>TYPE,2:</ALLOW_POSTPAID>
<SHORT_CODE>1</SHORT_CODE>
<ACT_KEYWORD>MOM</ACT_KEYWORD>
<DEACT_KEYWORD>UMO</DEACT_KEYWORD>
</GENERAL>
</MA02>
</PACKS>

after every deletion it is providing one white space..can u check and tell me where the code gets wrong.

thanks,
madhu.

[madhuriks]

need help regarding my post

[jkmyoung]

It's a little hard to do it with the way you have your code set up. Before you removed packnode:

get children nodes from packsNode
Search for packnode in this list.
Get the node before and after pack node (in the child node list)
If trimmed, they are equal to "", then remove them from packsNode as well.

[madhuriks]

hi gud evening,
i had changed my code...what u suggested..even though im not getting..here is my modified code..

package proj;

import java.io.*;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.util.Properties;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

import org.w3c.dom.*;
import javax.xml.parsers.*;
import javax.xml.transform.*;
import javax.xml.transform.dom.*;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.*;

public class delete extends HttpServlet {

    public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
            throws ServletException, IOException {

        response.setContentType("text/html");
        PrintWriter pw = response.getWriter();
        String packName = request.getParameter("packName").trim();

        try {
            DocumentBuilderFactory builderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
            builderFactory.setIgnoringElementContentWhitespace(true);
            DocumentBuilder docBuilder = builderFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
            
            // Creating the path for XML File using Properties
            ServletContext servletContextObj = request.getSession().getServletContext();
            String excelTemplatesPath = servletContextObj.getRealPath("/").trim();
            String filePaths = excelTemplatesPath + File.separator
                    + "config.properties".trim();
            Properties propObj = new Properties();
            propObj.load(new FileInputStream(filePaths.trim()));
            String gprsLoginPath = null;
            gprsLoginPath = propObj.getProperty("GPRS_LOGIN_PATH").trim();
            if (gprsLoginPath.trim() == null || gprsLoginPath.trim().equals("")) {
                gprsLoginPath = excelTemplatesPath.trim();
            }
            gprsLoginPath += File.separator + "login.xml".trim();
            java.io.File file = new java.io.File(gprsLoginPath.trim());
            Document doc = null;
            if (file.exists()) {
                try {
                    doc = docBuilder.parse(file);
                    doc.normalizeDocument();
                } catch (Exception ex) {
                    doc = docBuilder.newDocument();
                    doc.normalize();
                    Element root = doc.createElement("PACKS");
                    doc.appendChild(root);
                    doc.normalize();
                }
            } else {
                doc = docBuilder.newDocument();
                doc.normalize();
                // Creating Root Tag
                Element root = doc.createElement("PACKS");
                doc.appendChild(root);
            }

            delNode(file, doc, packName);
            pw.println("<b>Xml File Deleted Successfully</b>");
        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.out.println(e);
        }
    }

    public static void delNode(java.io.File file, Document parent, String filtervalue)
            throws Exception {
        NodeList nodeList = parent.getElementsByTagName("PACK_NAME");
       for (int i = 0; i < nodeList.getLength(); i++) {
            Node child = nodeList.item(i);
            child.getTextContent().trim();
            System.out.println("child " + child.getTextContent());
            
            if (child.getTextContent().trim() != null && child.getTextContent().trim().equalsIgnoreCase(filtervalue.trim())) {

                // Node packNode = child.getParentNode();
                Node packNode = child.getParentNode().getParentNode();
                packNode.getTextContent().trim();
                Node packsNode = parent.getFirstChild();
                packsNode.setNodeValue(filtervalue.trim());
                packsNode.removeChild(packNode);
                packsNode.getTextContent().trim();
    //          parent.removeChild(child.getParentNode().getParentNode());
                break;
            }
        }
        parent.getDoctype();
        parent.getDocumentURI().trim();
        parent.normalizeDocument();
        parent.normalize();
       // TransformerFactory instance is used to create Transformer objects.
        TransformerFactory factory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
        Transformer transformer = factory.newTransformer();
        transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT,"no");
        // create string from xml tree
        StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
        StreamResult result = new StreamResult(sw);
        result.setOutputStream(null);
       
        DOMSource source = new DOMSource(parent);
        transformer.transform(source, result);
        String xmlString = sw.toString().trim();
        xmlString.trim();
        BufferedWriter bw = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(
                new FileOutputStream(file)));
        bw.write(xmlString.trim());
        bw.flush();
        bw.close();
   }
}

can u suggest me where to change my code

[jkmyoung]

3 Mistakes.
1. Whoever gave you that code doesn't realize that the empty node is in the middle. That code will have no affect.

2. The second mistake they've made is thinking that trim() will actually do anything instead of just returning a string to nobody. The node would have to be set to the new value.

3. There are text (whitespace) nodes on the side of your packnode; the text is not specfically part of the packnode.
====
I realize I too have made a mistake. If you delete both text nodes, you will not have a hard return that you want. Delete one of them only.

[madhuriks]

which one packsNode or packNode one..i need to delete

[jkmyoung]

?You do realize packsNode is the <PACKS> node. If you deleted this, you would be deleting the entire content of your document!

get the children nodes from packsNode
Search for packnode in this list.
Get the node after packnode (in the child node list) eg. if the index of packnode is i, the child node will be in index i+1 in the children nodes nodelist.
If it is a text node, and when trimmed is equal to "", then remove this node from packsNode as well