XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[peter murray-rust <pm286 AT cam.ac.uk>]

At 13:26 19/12/2005, Elliotte Harold wrote:
> peter murray-rust wrote:
>
> > Under XOM I have at least two problems:
> > (A) the *.xml files with schema references fail to parse under XOM 
> > even if no validation is called for. a typical message is:
> > nu.xom.ParsingException: Illegal path character
> > which appears to have a significant whitespace character if I write it as:
> > [nu.xom.ParsingException: Illegal path character  ] in 
> > [C:\pmr\schema23\examples\xsd\countType1.xml]
> > None of my files have whitespace characters in their names but 
> > temporary filenames might have. I can remove this error simply by 
> > removing the xsi:schemaLocation attribute.
>
> This one's hard to debug remotely, but I'm reasonably confident that 
> it has something to do with relative URLs and Windows file paths 
> (which aren't URLs.) If you can drop ti down to a self-contained 
> reproducible test case, I could investigate further. It's probably 
> not a XOM bug as such, but if the error message is unclear and 
> unhelpful,  I might be able to improve that.

Thanks - the use of File() instead of FileReader() has solved half 
the problem. The other appears to be related to the use of
public Nodes makeAttribute(...)
 in a subclassed NodeFactory - this currently makes little sense but 
I am seeing if I can isolate it.

P.


Peter Murray-Rust
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