gov.va.med.xml

Class XmlUtilities

Object

XmlUtilities

Deprecated.

Need for XML utilities has been superceded by the many JRE-built-in and external XML frameworks

public class XmlUtilities
extends Object

This class contains a number of static utility methods to help developers work with XML documents, nodes, attributes and strings

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
static String	XML_HEADER Deprecated. Represents the default header used for all xml documents that communicate with an M server via VistALink.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static String	convertXmlToStr(Document doc) Deprecated. Need for XML utilities has been superceded by the many JRE-built-in and external XML frameworks
static Attr	getAttr(Node node, String attrName) Deprecated. Need for XML utilities has been superceded by the many JRE-built-in and external XML frameworks
static Document	getDocumentForXmlInputStream(InputStream xml) Deprecated. Need for XML utilities has been superceded by the many JRE-built-in and external XML frameworks
static Document	getDocumentForXmlString(String xml) Deprecated. Need for XML utilities has been superceded by the many JRE-built-in and external XML frameworks
static Node	getNode(String xpathStr, Node node) Deprecated. Need for XML utilities has been superceded by the many JRE-built-in and external XML frameworks

Methods inherited from class Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

XML_HEADER

public static final String XML_HEADER

Deprecated.

Represents the default header used for all xml documents that communicate with an M server via VistALink. It is important to use this header as keeps the client and M server in sync. Note that that as a String constant, this value is compiled into the calling class at compile time; it is not dynamically linked at runtime.

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Method Detail

convertXmlToStr

public static String convertXmlToStr(Document doc)
                              throws FoundationsException

Deprecated. Need for XML utilities has been superceded by the many JRE-built-in and external XML frameworks

Converts a DOM document to a string.

Parameters:

doc -

Returns:

String

Throws:

FoundationsException

getNode

public static Node getNode(String xpathStr,
                           Node node)

Deprecated. Need for XML utilities has been superceded by the many JRE-built-in and external XML frameworks

Returns the first node at the specified XPath location.

Example:

This example returns the Customer/Address node in the specified document object.

Node address = XmlUtilities.getNode("/Customer/Address", custDoc);

Parameters:

xpathStr - XPath str

node - Node to search

Returns:

Node first node found

getAttr

public static Attr getAttr(Node node,
                           String attrName)

Deprecated. Need for XML utilities has been superceded by the many JRE-built-in and external XML frameworks

Returns the Attribute with the given attrName at node.

Example:

This example returns the 'state' attribute from the address node.

Attr state = getAttr(address,"state")

Parameters:

node - Node to search

attrName - Name of the attribute to find

Returns:

Attr Attribute found

getDocumentForXmlString

public static Document getDocumentForXmlString(String xml)
                                        throws FoundationsException

Deprecated. Need for XML utilities has been superceded by the many JRE-built-in and external XML frameworks

Returns an XML DOM Document for the specified String.

Example:

This example creates a customer XML document for a serialized customer:

Document cust = XmlUtilities.getDocumentForXmlString(custXmlString);

Parameters:

xml - serialized XML document

Returns:

Document XML document

Throws:

FoundationsException

getDocumentForXmlInputStream

public static Document getDocumentForXmlInputStream(InputStream xml)
                                             throws FoundationsException

Deprecated. Need for XML utilities has been superceded by the many JRE-built-in and external XML frameworks

Returns an XML DOM Document for the specified InputStream

Example:

This example creates a customer XML document from an input stream.

Document cust = XmlUtilities.getDocumentForXmlInputStream(custStream);

Parameters:

xml - input stream to processed

Returns:

Document XML document

Throws:

FoundationsException