XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

David Forslund wrote:
> I'm trying to use XOM in a webapp and all ServletContext.getRealPath() 
> to get the path to an XML file to process.  I'm doing this on windows.  
> It yields a path with "\" in it as is normal on windoes.   But I get the 
> following error:
> nu.xom.ParsingException: Path contains invalid character: \ in 
> C:\Java\resin-2.1.9\webapps\b-safer\WEB-INF/classes/xcode/symptoms.xml
>         at nu.xom.Builder.build(Builder.java:1170)
>         at nu.xom.Builder.build(Builder.java:562)
>         at gov.lanl.Utility.xml.Resource.setXMLDOMSource(Resource.java:121)

Hard to tell without seeing your code, but two things suggest 
themselves. First XOM s not DOM, and the method name "setXMLDOMSource" 
suggests that might be your problem.

Second the exception you're getting is just propagated from the 
underlying SAX parser. You're supposed to be passing a URL into the 
build() method.A path, especially a Windows path, is not a URL; and \ is 
not a legal character in URLs. Hence the error message. Convert the path 
to a file URL or use the Build method that takes a File object instead.

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