XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

At 6:31 PM +0100 6/30/04, Matthew Darlison wrote:

> <!DOCTYPE office:document-content PUBLIC "-//OpenOffice.org//DTD 
> OfficeDocument 1.0//EN" "office.dtd">
>
> is what they say, which seems odd since the files are all zipped up
> inside an OpenOffice file... so there is no local directory there per
> se - they'd have to be in the root of the .zip (.sxw), which they
> aren't... they're off in OpenOffice.org's installation tree... and as
> they the files seem not to parse "out of the zip", I can't get in to
> fix them...

office.dtd is not a file name. It's a relative URL. I'm not sure what 
the base URL would be in this case, but I think it makes sense to 
expect it to be at the same place in the zip archive. If it isn't, 
then yes, you really do need to key off the public ID instead. For 
the moment this is going to require either a catalog resolver or a 
custom SAX EntitytResolver. For the former see Item 47 of Effefctive 
XML, available here:

http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml/chapters/47.html

For the latter, see Chapter 7 of Processing XML with Java, especially 
http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava/chapters/ch07s02.html#d0e10350

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  Elliotte Rusty Harold
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  Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
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