COM \approx DOM? On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Ross Gardler <ross.gard...@googlemail.com>wrote:
> I wonder why we are getting so many of these. I've only ever seen one > or two incorrectly classified issues on projects. Is there something > about the name of our tracker that makes people think it's the right > place? > > Ross > > 2009/12/3 Bertrand Delacretaz (JIRA) <j...@apache.org>: > > > > [ > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMDEV-4?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12785249#action_12785249] > > > > Bertrand Delacretaz commented on COMDEV-4: > > ------------------------------------------ > > > > Doesn't look like a Community Development issue... > > > >> External entity in XML causing null pointer exception during > DocumentBuilder.parse > >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> > >> Key: COMDEV-4 > >> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMDEV-4 > >> Project: Community Development > >> Issue Type: Question > >> Reporter: sri kumar > >> > >> I was trying to parse a XML Document using DOM Parser. > >> I got null pointer exception while executing doc = > builder.parse(xmlDataFile); > >> There were few entities in the XML data file. On removing a particular > entity, i was able to parse the file successfully > >> The entity was some thing like this > >> <!ENTITY SAMPLE.TIF SYSTEM "SAMPLE.TIF" NDATA TIF> > >> What could be the reason? > >> EDIT: > >> Here is the code: > >> DocumentBuilderFactory aFactory = > DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); > >> aFactory.setValidating(false); > >> aFactory.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces";, > false); > >> aFactory.setFeature(" > http://apache.org/xml/features/validation/schema";, false); > >> aFactory.setIgnoringComments(true); > >> builder = aFactory.newDocumentBuilder(); > >> doc = builder.parse(xmlDataFile); > >> This is the trace: > >> at > com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.dom.DeferredDocumentImpl.setChunkIndex(DeferredDocumentImpl.java:1944) > >> at > com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.dom.DeferredDocumentImpl.appendChild(DeferredDocumentImpl.java:644) > >> at > com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractDOMParser.characters(AbstractDOMParser.java:1191) > >> at > com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.characters(XMLDTDValidator.java:862) > >> at > com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:463) > >> at > com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:807) > >> at > com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:737) > >> at > com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:107) > >> at > com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.DOMParser.parse(DOMParser.java:225) > >> at > com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(DocumentBuilderImpl.java:283) > >> at javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder.parse(DocumentBuilder.java:180) > >> at XMLParser.Parse(XMLParser.java:89) > >> at Main.main(Main.java:116) > >> 89 line number points to -> doc = builder.parse(xmlDataFile); > > > > -- > > This message is automatically generated by JIRA. > > - > > You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online. > > > > > > > > -- > Ross Gardler > > OSS Watch - supporting open source in education and research > http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk > -- Ted Dunning, CTO DeepDyve
