Hi, The JAXP 1.2 schema properties are only relevant to XML Schema validation. They have nothing to do with loading DTDs. Try using an EntityResolver [1] instead.
Thanks. [1] http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/javadocs/api/org/xml/sax/EntityResolver.html Michael Glavassevich XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: mrgla...@ca.ibm.com E-mail: mrgla...@apache.org DeWayne <dewayne.c.dantz...@boeing.com> wrote on 11/10/2009 01:06:54 PM: > According to the documentation at Sun documentation > (http://java.sun.com/webservices/reference/tutorials/jaxp/html/sax.html), " > When the application specifies the schema to use, it overrides any schema > declaration in the document.". I've tried to setup a SAXParser on an HP-UX > box using Xerces-J-2.9.1 which is JAXP1.2 compliant to use an external DTD > rather than the one specified in the document. > > What am I missing to get the Parser to ignore the internal DTD and use an > external one? > > snippet - XML file has a DOCTYPE declaration: > ====================================== > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <!DOCTYPE mpd SYSTEM "mpboe03.dtd" [ > <!ENTITY % isobox PUBLIC "-//W3C//ENTITIES Box and Line Drawing//EN//XML" > "http://www.w3.org/2003/entities/2007/isobox.ent"; > > > %isobox; > > snippet - code: > ======================================================================= > private static final String JAXP_SCHEMA_SOURCE = > "http://java.sun.com/xml/jaxp/properties/schemaSource";; > private static final String JAXP_SCHEMA_LANGUAGE = > "http://java.sun.com/xml/jaxp/properties/schemaLanguage";; > private static final String W3C_XML_SCHEMA = > "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";; > > try { > //1. Create a SAXParserFactory object. > SAXParserFactory spf = SAXParserFactory.newInstance(); > > //2. Set the namespace-aware and validating properties to true. > spf.setNamespaceAware(true); > spf.setValidating(true); > > // 3. Obtain a SAXParser object. > SAXParser saxParser = spf.newSAXParser(); > > parser = saxParser.getXMLReader(); > parser.setErrorHandler(this); > > // Turn on validation > parser.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/validation";, true); > > //4. Set the properties for the schema language and schema source > parser.setProperty(JAXP_SCHEMA_LANGUAGE, W3C_XML_SCHEMA); > parser.setProperty(JAXP_SCHEMA_SOURCE, myOwnDTD.getAbsolutePath ()); > > //5. Parse the document. The parser must have access to an ErrorHandler > object. > parser.parse(file.getAbsolutePath()); // file is the xml > file to parse > }catch ... // all necessary exceptions > > Results: > =================================================== > Get an io.FileNotFoundException: The parser is looking for the DTD called > out in the DOCTYPE declaration instead of using the one specified by the > coder myOwnDTD.dtd. > > java.io.FileNotFoundException: mpboe03.dtd (No such file or directory > (errno:2)) > at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method) > at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:106) > at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:66) > at > sun.net.www.protocol.file.FileURLConnection.connect (FileURLConnection.java:70) > at > sun.net.www.protocol.file.FileURLConnection.getInputStream > (FileURLConnection.java:161) > at > org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityManager.setupCurrentEntity(Unknown Source) > at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityManager.startEntity(Unknown > Source) > at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityManager.startDTDEntity(Unknown > Source) > at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDTDScannerImpl.setInputSource (Unknown > Source) > at > org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$DTDDispatcher.dispatch (Unknown > Source) > at > org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument (Unknown > Source) > at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown > Source) > at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown > Source) > at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source) > at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source) > at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse (Unknown > Source) > at JavaXMLParse.parse(JavaXMLParse.java:103) > at JavaXMLParse.main(JavaXMLParse.java:154) > > -- > View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/How-to-ignore- > the-DTD-called-out-in-DOCTYPE-declaration-and-use-one-specified-by- > the-user--tp26287359p26287359.html > Sent from the Xerces - J - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: j-users-unsubscr...@xerces.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: j-users-h...@xerces.apache.org
