[XOM-interest] DTD download error while parsing XHTML document

Bala B K bkbsub at gmail.com
Wed Jun 17 12:33:41 EDT 2009


I used a separate SAXParser with the dtd download feature turn off.

org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser xmlReader = new SAXParser();
xmlReader.setFeature("http://apache.org/xml/features/nonvalidating/load-external-dtd",
false);
Builder xomBuilder = new Builder(xmlReader);


Thanks,
Bala.

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Bala B K<bkbsub at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to parse an HTML document with the doctype declared to use
> the transitional dtd as follows:
>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
>
> When I do Builder.build on the document, I get the following exception:
>
> java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 503 for URL:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd
>        at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1305)
>        at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityManager.setupCurrentEntity(Unknown Source)
>        at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityManager.startEntity(Unknown Source)
>        at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityManager.startDTDEntity(Unknown Source)
>        at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDTDScannerImpl.setInputSource(Unknown Source)
>        at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$DTDDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown
> Source)
>        at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown
> Source)
>        at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(Unknown Source)
>        at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(Unknown Source)
>        at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
>        at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
>        at nu.xom.Builder.build(Builder.java:1127)
>        at nu.xom.Builder.build(Builder.java:1019)
>
> If I remove the doc type declaration, it parses just fine. I can
> successfully download the dtd from my browser, which tells me that the
> url is valid. I don't want to remove the doc type declaration. Is
> there a way tell the builder not to download the dtd or provide it
> with an alternate dtd?
>
> Thanks,
> Bala.
>
> P.S.: I only saw one mailing list so I am posting my question here. If
> there is a better xom-help or xom-users list, please let me know and I
> will post my question there.
>


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