XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Andrew Thompson <lordpixel AT mac.com>]

On Mar 6, 2005, at 1:38 PM, Elliotte Harold wrote:

> Andrew Thompson wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I've been trying to use XOM as an XInclude resolver, so I wrote a 
> > little program to take some XHTML document I had and resolve the 
> > includes:
>
> I'll have to look deeper, but I don't think the problem is line 
> endings. Are you sure the input file is well-formed?

Continuing to dig into this. I think the file is well formed because 
the w3c validator is OK with it, plus, I altered my code to read like 
this:

                InputStream fis = new FileInputStream(a_inputFile);
                Reader r = new BufferedReader(new 
InputStreamReader(fis, "UTF-8"));
                Document unresolved = new Builder().build(r);

OutputStream destFile = new BufferedOutputStream(new 
FileOutputStream(a_outputFile));
                    Serializer s = new Serializer(destFile, "UTF-8");

But the file still wouldn't go through when saved as UTF-8.
So finally I saved it as UTF-8 with no BOM, and the file goes 
through... which is odd. BOM on, exception, BOM off, goes through.

Well, when I say goes through, now I'm getting:

Resolving includes in /Volumes/Mesa/Stuff/website bits/index.xml to 
/Volumes/Mesa/Stuff/website bits/index.html
Illegal IRI in href attribute
nu.xom.xinclude.BadHrefAttributeException: Illegal IRI in href attribute
        at nu.xom.xinclude.XIncluder.testURISyntax(Unknown Source)
        at nu.xom.xinclude.XIncluder.resolve(Unknown Source)
        at nu.xom.xinclude.XIncluder.resolve(Unknown Source)
        at nu.xom.xinclude.XIncluder.resolve(Unknown Source)

But the only XInclude elements the document contains is:

<xi:include href="navbar.xml"/>
<xi:include href="sidebar.xml"/>

That error message could use some more detail, if possible!

So I'm left with three questions:

* what's up with my xinclude
* why does the BOM prevent the file from being handled
* Does anyone know a Java component that can guess the file encoding 
for an XML file?

AndyT (lordpixel - the cat who walks through walls)
A little bigger on the inside

        (see you later space cowboy ...)