Eclipse Can't Find Latest Java 1.6 Methods for XMLOutputFactory

Question

I'm trying to use the newFactory() method for XMLOutputFactory, which was added in Java 6. But Eclipse keeps flagging newFactory() as undefined for the type XMLOutputFactory. JRE7 is the only runtime installed and in the build path of new Java projects. The project itself only has JRE7 (JRE System Library) and Ivy set up. The error I keep getting is

The method newFactory() is undefined for the type XMLOutputFactory

Any ideas how to get Eclipse to accept newFactory? Pretty much just using return XMLOutputFactory.newFactory() as the only place where the function is called.

Answer 1

I had the same problem, and I fixed it by removing StAX from my classpath, because the version of XMLOutputFactory that comes with Java 7 provides the newFactory method, but the version of XMLOutputFactory that comes with StAX doesn't have it.

Answer 2

I had the same problem and it is resolved by using: XMLInputFactory factory = XMLInputFactory.newInstance(); you can visit:

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