I am parsing a XML with Digester. A part of it contains content formatted in cryptic pseudo-HTML XML elements which I need to transform into an PDF. That will be done via Apache FOP. Hence I need to access the xml element which contains the content elements directly and pipe it to FOP. To do so the Digester FAQ states that one either
Wrap the nested xml in CDATA
or
If this can't be done then you need to use a NodeCreateRule to create a DOM node representing the body tag and its children, then serialise that DOM node back to text
Since it is a third party XML the CDATA
approach could only be done via (another) XSLT which I hestitate to do.
It looks like this issue should be solvable via NodeCreateRule but I can not figure out how to get it done.
The documentation states that NodeCreateRule
will push a Node onto the stack however I can only get it to pass null.
I tried
digester.addRule(docPath + "/contents", new NodeCreateRule());
digester.addCallMethod(docPath + "/contents", "setContentsXML");
setContentsXML expects a Element parameter.
I also tried this and this without any luck.
I am using the latest stable Digester. Would be thankful for any advice.
Update: I found the bug . The result on my system is null, too. I am using JDK 6u24