XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>]

At 9:50 AM -0400 8/20/03, François Beausoleil wrote:
> Hello Patrick,
>
> The problem is that your document references a relative resource,
> but the resource is not accessible.  You have three ways in which
> you can solve that:
>
> 1.  Put the SchadeAttest.dtd file at the root of your classpath, or
> in the same package where the Load4XML.java file is.  I don't know
> how the default EntityResolver works, but it might be able to
> resolve the reference.
>
> 2.  Use an absolute URL to the SchadeAttest.dtd file.  Something
> like file:///path/to/file/SchadeAttest.dtd.  Or use the http
> protocol, as appropriate.
>
> 3.  Implement an EntityResolver and pass that to XOM.  Implementors
> of EntityResolver are responsible for resolving resources and
> returning them to the caller.  In you case, when the systemID
> contains "SchadeAttest.dtd", you would build a URL to the file, and
> return that.

These should all work. However, they shouldn't be necessary. I'm
still looking at this, but I think it might be classified as a bug in
XOM and/or the Windows JDK. Interestingly the code Mr. Muls supplied
does work on Linux. I have to move it all over to my Windows laptop
and test it there.
--

  Elliotte Rusty Harold
  elharo AT metalab.unc.edu
  Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002)
  http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava
  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0201771861/cafeaulaitA