Weblogs with DOM

import org.w3c.dom.*;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.*;
import java.net.*;


public class WeblogsDOM {

  public static String DEFAULT_URL
   = "http://static.userland.com/weblogMonitor/logs.xml";

  public static List listChannels() throws DOMException {
    return listChannels(DEFAULT_URL);
  }

  public static List listChannels(String uri) throws DOMException {

    if (uri == null) {
      throw new NullPointerException("URL must be non-null");
    }

    org.apache.xerces.parsers.DOMParser parser
     = new org.apache.xerces.parsers.DOMParser();

    Vector urls = null;

    try {
      // Read the entire document into memory
      parser.parse(uri);
      Document doc = parser.getDocument();
      NodeList logs = doc.getElementsByTagName("url");

      urls = new Vector(logs.getLength());

      for (int i = 0; i < logs.getLength(); i++) {
        try {
          Node element = logs.item(i);
          Node text = element.getFirstChild();
          String content = text.getNodeValue();
          URL u = new URL(content);
          urls.addElement(u);
        }
        catch (MalformedURLException e) {
          // bad input data from one third party; just ignore it
        }
      }
    }
    catch (SAXException e) {
      System.err.println(e);
    }
    catch (IOException e) {
      System.err.println(e);
    }

    return urls;

  }

  public static void main(String[] args) {

    try {
      List urls;
      if (args.length > 0) {
        try {
          URL url = new URL(args[0]);
          urls = listChannels(args[0]);
        }
        catch (MalformedURLException e) {
          System.err.println("Usage: java WeblogsDOM url");
          return;
        }
      }
      else {
        urls = listChannels();
      }
      Iterator iterator = urls.iterator();
      while (iterator.hasNext()) {
        System.out.println(iterator.next());
      }
    }
    catch (/* Unexpected */ Exception e) {
      e.printStackTrace();
    }

  } // end main

}

Previous | Next | Top | Cafe con Leche

Copyright 2000-2003 Elliotte Rusty Harold
elharo@metalab.unc.edu
Last Modified November 14, 2000