Re: How do I deal with new line in text when outputting to XML in Java

From:
Mark Space <markspace@sbc.global.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Sun, 10 Jun 2007 21:41:31 GMT
Message-ID:
<fe_ai.16955$5j1.127@newssvr21.news.prodigy.net>
John wrote:

Say I have a String in Java like

"To be or not to be, that is the question.
William Shakespear"

How can I convert it to a xml file that has two nodes, each of which
contains one line of that string? I mean, how do I program to determine the
new line?

<dramma>
         <text>To be or not to be, that is the question.</text>
         <text>William Shakespear</text>
</drama>


I'm not the expert at all, but I think this will work. Make a Reader
object from the String:

String willie = "To be or not to be, that is the question.\nWilliam
Shakespear"
StringReader willieReader = new StringReader( willie );

Then use that to make a BufferedReader, which has a readLine method.

BufferedReader bufferedWillieReader = new BufferedReader( willieReader );

String line = bufferedWillieReader.readLine();

I'm sure there's a way to do this just with String methods, but this
might be the most general, since the BufferReader will also let you read
from files. I found this just by poking around the only Java API that
Sun maintains:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/java/io/BufferedReader.html

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