Question

I have this code for reading XML files:

try {

            File fXmlFile = new File(fullFilePath);
            DocumentBuilderFactory dbFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory
                    .newInstance();
            DocumentBuilder dBuilder = dbFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
            Document doc = dBuilder.parse(fXmlFile);
            doc.getDocumentElement().normalize();

            NodeList nList = doc.getElementsByTagName("task");

            for (int temp = 0; temp < nList.getLength(); temp++) {

                Node nNode = nList.item(temp);
                if (nNode.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE) {

                    Element eElement = (Element) nNode;

                    int i = temp;

                    MyTasks.customers[i][11] = getTagValue("att1", eElement);
                    MyTasks.customers[i][12] = getTagValue("att8", eElement);
                    MyTasks.customers[i][13] = getTagValue("att2", eElement);
                    MyTasks.customers[i][14] = getTagValue("att7", eElement);
                    MyTasks.customers[i][15] = getTagValue("att3", eElement);
                    MyTasks.customers[i][16] = getTagValue("att4", eElement);
                    MyTasks.customers[i][18] = getTagValue("att5", eElement);
                    MyTasks.customers[i][19] = getTagValue("att6", eElement);
                    //ect
                }
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            CreateLog.addToLog("[ReadXML]" + e.toString());

        }

Is it possible to continue reading the XML file after an error occurs. If one attribute does not exists the whole script stops reading and catchs an error.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

It is possible. Add a try-catch statement inside the for-loop and in case of catching an exception just use the continue; statement.