I'm having some problems getting started with BerkeleyDB XML and I'd really
appreciate some help or guidance.

I've written a java application which reads some XML from a file and writes
it to a container.
Unfortunately, I have a couple of peoblems.
The first one, is than unless I enable auto-open, it tells me the container
is closed. I've looked at the source and it's failing somewhere in the
native methds which makes it difficult to resolve. This is less of a
problem to me at the minute, tho I note that someone from Sleepycat said
it's a slow way of doing things.

The other problem is more of a show-stopper:

Opening container TestMetadata.dbxml
Container - TestMetadata.dbxml - Node storage container opened.
Opening container TestMetadata.dbxml
Indexer - XML Indexer: Fatal Parse error in document at line, 1, char 23.
Parser message: An exception occurred! Type:UTFDataFormatException,
Message:invalid byte 1 (?) of a 1-byte sequence.

The XML data file is valid (if slightly dull):

<?xml version="1.0" ?>

<metadata>
<test id="1" name="test1">

</test>

<test id="2" name="test2">

</test>

</metadata>

I don't see why this should fail with such an error.

The method I'm using to write the data is as follows:

public boolean write(String strDocKey, String strXmlDoc) throws
XmlException
{
boolean boolRetVal = true;

try {
semWriteAccess.acquire();

openContainer();

// Do write
XmlTransaction xtTrans = xmManager.createTransaction();

XmlUpdateContext xucUpdate =
xmManager.createUpdateContext();

xcContainer.putDocument(xtTrans, strDocKey, strXmlDoc,
xucUpdate);

xtTrans.commit();

} catch (InterruptedException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
boolRetVal = false;
} finally {
semWriteAccess.release();
}

return boolRetVal;
}


I'm setting up as follows:

Environment envCurrent =
getEnvironment(BERKELEY_TEST_REPOSITORY_HOME);

XmlManagerConfig xmc = new XmlManagerConfig();

xmc.setAllowAutoOpen(true);

xmManager = new XmlManager(envCurrent, xmc);

xmManager.setLogLevel(XmlManager.LEVEL_ALL, true);
xmManager.setLogCategory(XmlManager.CATEGORY_ALL, true);



public Environment getEnvironment(String strBase) throws
FileNotFoundException, DatabaseException
{
File f = new File(strBase);

EnvironmentConfig envConf = new EnvironmentConfig();
envConf.setMaxLocks(10000);
envConf.setMaxLockers(10000);
envConf.setMaxLockObjects(10000);

envConf.setCacheSize(50 * 1024 * 1024);
envConf.setAllowCreate(true);
envConf.setInitializeCache(true);
envConf.setTransactional(true);
envConf.setInitializeLocking(true);
envConf.setInitializeLogging(true);
envConf.setErrorStream(System.err);

Environment myEnv = new Environment(f, envConf);

return myEnv;
}

Any ideas, please let me know - I'm really keen to get this going.

Thanks