Hi Adrian, Looks like you hit a bug in Sun's implementation [1]. The DOMImplementationRegistry included with Xerces-J 2.9.0 (in xml-apis.jar) doesn't have this problem. See this FAQ [2] for how to override the APIs in the JDK with the Apache version.
Thanks. [1] http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=5089570 [2] http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/faq-general.html#faq-4 Michael Glavassevich XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Adrian Herscu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 06/24/2007 06:50:29 PM: > Hi all, > > I need to validate an XML document against an XSD schema. > I am trying to use the org.w3c.dom.bootstrap.DOMImplementationRegistry > class this way: > > DOMImplementationLS impl; > DOMImplementationRegistry registry; > > // NOTE: this causes the newInstance method to throw a > // ClassCastException :-( > // System.setProperty(DOMImplementationRegistry.PROPERTY, > // "org.apache.xerces.dom.DOMImplementationSourceImpl"); > > // Checkstyle: IllegalCatch off > try { > registry = DOMImplementationRegistry.newInstance(); > } catch (Exception e) { > throw new InternalError("couldn't get an instance of the " > + "DOM implementation registry because " > + e.getMessage()); > } > // Checkstyle: IllegalCatch on > > impl = > (DOMImplementationLS) registry > .getDOMImplementation("LS 3.0"); > > // NOTE: the getDOMImplementation returns a null :-( > assert impl != null; > > return impl; > > I googled about two hours... > Is there any system config that I am missing? Is there any other way to > get that object? Perhaps, binding directly to the Xerces implementation? > How? > > TIA, > Adrian. > > P.S. I am compiling and running this code on jdk1.5.0_12. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
