XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

At 12:50 PM +0100 6/30/04, Matthew Darlison wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm building a susbsystem to recursively unpack and extract some
> content from OpenOffice.org files (which are in effect zip archives
> of XML...). So far, so good, but the extracted XML makes references
> to a complex set of DTD and numerous .mod files, so that parsing the
> content.xml file that I am interested in fails unless all of the
> ancillary files are in the same directory...

Why wouldn't they be there if that's where the references say they are?

> This may be a dumb question (apologies if it is... I'm learning...!),
> but is there any way of replicating what a CATALOG file would do
> under other circumstances, so that the ancillary files can be
> referenced from a single location...?

There's no catalog support built-in. It's on the TODO list for post 
1.0. You could use a custom XMLReader that used the Apache catalog 
resolver.

> Also, I'm using the cvs code and rebuilding using build.xml every
> time something changes, but the result I get is version 1.0a2 rather
> than a3...

Probably just means I need to commit the latest build.xxml. YOur code 
is likely 1.0a3 or later.
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  Elliotte Rusty Harold
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  Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
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