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bmud YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 24 NC

XMLElement load file from outside of data Feb 4th, 2010, 10:07am   Make yourself an XML file! Code: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <a>    <b/> </a> On Windows: Code: XMLElement test = new XMLElement(this, "C:\TEST.xml"); ...doesn't work. Instead, you have to replace the forward slash with a back slash like so... Code: XMLElement test = new XMLElement(this, "C:/TEST.xml"); ...which is weird.

koogy God Member Offline Posts: 788	Re: XMLElement load file from outside of data Reply #1 - Feb 4th, 2010, 10:26am   > XMLElement test = new XMLElement(this, "C:\TEST.xml"); > ...doesn't work. \ is considered an escape character in java, as in \n for newline. you have to escape the escape: XMLElement test = new XMLElement(this, "C:\\TEST.xml"); (or replace with /, yes)

bmud YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 24 NC	Re: XMLElement load file from outside of data Reply #2 - Feb 4th, 2010, 10:32am   ohhhhh.. So i'll have to run a replace for "\" to "\\" on the string. Duh!

koogy God Member Offline Posts: 788	Re: XMLElement load file from outside of data Reply #3 - Feb 4th, 2010, 10:50am   except you'll have to escape all those escapes in your replace statement, so \\ and \\\\. it gets messy very quickly.