Dear Aleksander

Thanks for your help; I am very pleased with the ease of using XMLPullParser.

Keep up the good work!

Phil


>Phil Troy wrote:
> > Dear Aleksander
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > I bypassed the problem of the missing XmlPullParserFactory class by
> > creating the relevant packages and creating classes within them as
> > needed so that I now have the following projects/classes:
> >
> > - org.xmlpull.v1
> > - XmlPullParser.java
> > - XmlPullParserException
> > - XmlPullParserFactory
> > - XmlSerializer
> >
> > - org.xmlpull.mxp1
> > - MxParser.java
> >
> > But now, when I run the following statement it throws an exception on
> > the following line of code
> >
> > XmlPullParserFactory factory =
> >
>
XmlPullParserFactory.newInstance(System.getProperty(XmlPullParserFactory.PROPERT\
Y_NAME),
>
> > null);
> >
> > I presume that it is because I am not properly setting the class to
> > MxParser.java - if that is the problem, can you please tell me how to
> > do that? I did look at the
> >
> > Class XmlPullParserFactory documentation, and did see the reference to
> >
> > Thread.getContextClassLoader().getClass() but I don't know how to get
> > that to work.
> >
>calling System.getProperty(XmlPullParserFactory.PROPERTY_NAME) allwos
>you to override parser impl class with system property. in case if it is
>null then factory loads parse class impl name from special file in
>META-INF directory and if you donot have this file it fails
>
>you can by pass it by simply calling:
>
>XmlPullParserFactory.newInstance("org.xmlpull.mxp1.MXParser",null)
>
>or simply
>
>XmlPullParser pp = new org.xmlpull.mxp1.MXParser()
>
>anyway you should not need to do anything like this if you used
>xpp3-1.1.4c.jar - in such case factory should just work so i suspect
>there must be something eerie in your CLASSPATH project. it may be wort
>to create new workspace and bran new project in eclipse and see how
>things work in such case.
>
>best,
>
>alek
>
>

Philip M. Troy, Ph.D.,
Decision Support Systems Analyst
PhilTroy@...
www.PhilTroy.com