Re: Xml doc = dom.parseString(request.getReader());

From:
Lew <lew@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:53:26 -0400
Message-ID:
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Daniel Pitts wrote:

Add somewhere:
parser = DocumentBuilderFactory().newInstance().newDocumentBuilder()


gert wrote:

import javax.xml.parsers.*;

DocumentBuilder parser = null;
parser = DocumentBuilderFactory().newInstance().newDocumentBuilder();

I am sorry i must misunderstand something because the compiler doesn't
like it telling me it cant find the symbols.


It's time for you to provide an "SSCCE" - a Simple, Self-Contained Complete
Example. That is, a complete, simplified example that yields the error of
interest. Complete. Simplified. Complete.

We need /actual/ code and /actual/ compiler messages. Note that it is not
possible that "the compiler doesn't like it"; compilers don't have emotions.
We are unable to diagnose your issue or assist you given only anthropomorphic
approximations to the evidence.

Java note:

DocumentBuilder parser = null;
parser = DocumentBuilderFactory().newInstance().newDocumentBuilder();


Just use
  DocumentBuilder parser =
   DocumentBuilderFactory().newInstance().newDocumentBuilder();

Why initialize the variable twice?

Also, in English the word "I" is always capitalized, and use punctuation to
avoid ambiguity. "[T]he compiler doesn't like it telling me..." means, "the
compiler doesn't like [some previously mentioned thing] to tell me ...",
whereas I suspect you intended, "The compiler doesn't like it, telling me ...".

Programming is an art of precision.

--
Lew

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