printing an xml file to screen that is not in htdocs folder 1

[keak]

Hi there,

I was wondering if there is a way to create an xml page on the fly with jsp by reading in an xml file on the server (this file is not located in the htdocs folder so a regular a href=file.xml wont work ...)

Currently, I have

    String directory = "/home/apache/htdocs/myfolder";
    File file = new File(directory);
    File[] content = file.listFiles();
    Arrays.sort(content);
    for (int i=0; i<content.length; i++) {
        out.println("<br><a href='myfolder" + content[i].getName() + "'>" + content[i].getName() + "</a>");
    }

This will only work via browser my xml files were in /htdocs/myfolder.

Is there a way to print xml files that are not in this folder in similar methods?

 

[keak]

I think I figured the way to returl xml, however, this only seem to work in IE; firefox dowsn't show the formatted xml in the browser? Any ideas why this may be happening?

I noticed that there is a large amount of blank lines at the top of the xml's first line when I view source (I am guessing that the import statements are causing this); perhaps this is why firefox is not registering it as an xml?

If so, is there any way to prevent the import statement to insert blank lines in the http response that its giving out?

    String directory = "/home/user1/xmlfiles";
    BufferedReader input = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(directory+xmlfile));
    out.write("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n");
    //out.write(directory+xmlfile);
    String line = "";
    while ((line = input.readLine()) != null) {
        out.println(line);

 

[venur]

Hi,

Try setting the contentType to "XML" in the jsp page

response.setContentType("text/xml");

Cheers
Venu

 

[keak]

Thanks Venur,
That did just the trick!!