XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[David Forslund <forslund AT mail.com>]

Converting to a File object "cured" the problem.   I've been converting 
some old code to use XOM and had this slight incompatibility.

Thanks,

Dave
Elliotte Harold wrote:

> 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.