Fatal error while parsing XML using XPath in Java

Question

I want to parse a XML file. It throws the Exception while creating object:

Document doc = builder.parse("Response.xml");

Exception:

[Fatal Error] Response.xml:63:67: The prefix "UDF" for element "UDF:RTSIDUDF.LIST" is not bound.
Exception in thread "main" org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The prefix "UDF" for element "UDF:RTSIDUDF.LIST" is not bound.
    at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.DOMParser.parse(DOMParser.java:249)
    at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(DocumentBuilderImpl.java:284)
    at javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder.parse(DocumentBuilder.java:180)
    at tallyreqandresponse.Ledger.main(Ledger.java:38)
Java Result: 1

Sample xml Code:

 <A>
 <LANGUAGENAME.LIST>
   <NAME.LIST TYPE="String">
       <NAME>ABC India (P) Ltd.,</NAME>
   </NAME.LIST>
   <LANGUAGEID TYPE="Number"> 1033</LANGUAGEID>
   <UDF:RTSIDUDF.LIST DESC="`RTSIDUDF`" ISLIST="YES" TYPE="Number">
       <UDF:RTSIDUDF DESC="`RTSIDUDF`"> 1387</UDF:RTSIDUDF>
   </UDF:RTSIDUDF.LIST>
   </LANGUAGENAME.LIST>
 </A>

Kindly help me out of it.

Edit Note: Added LANGUAGENAME.LIST Opening tag

You need xmlns with description of UDF namespace.

yatul
– yatul

2012-05-11 10:07:05 +00:00
Commented May 11, 2012 at 10:07 — yatul
– yatul, Commented May 11, 2012 at 10:07

Martin Honnen · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-11 10:18:05Z

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Your input markup is not namespace well-formed XML so it is rejected by the XML parser. You need to fix the input with e.g.

<A>
 <NAME.LIST TYPE="String">
       <NAME>ABC India (P) Ltd.,</NAME>
 </NAME.LIST>
 <LANGUAGEID TYPE="Number"> 1033</LANGUAGEID>
       <UDF:RTSIDUDF.LIST xmlns:UDF="http://example.com/" DESC="`RTSIDUDF`" ISLIST="YES" TYPE="Number">
                      <UDF:RTSIDUDF DESC="`RTSIDUDF`"> 1387</UDF:RTSIDUDF>
      </UDF:RTSIDUDF.LIST>
  </LANGUAGENAME.LIST>
</A>

answered May 11, 2012 at 10:18

Martin Honnen

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Martin Honnen Over a year ago

See w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names for the format specification. Also note that xmlns:UDF="http://example.com/" is meant as an example, I don't recognize your format so I can't relate a URL with it.

MiMo · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-11 13:34:58Z

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Beside the missing namespace definition it also seems that there is a mismatched tag:

</LANGUAGENAME.LIST>

has no corresponding opening tag.

If you Google xml namespaces you get plenty of good links - have a look here for example.

answered May 11, 2012 at 13:34

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