[jdom-interest] Request for help: getting started ...

[Ian Lea]

You need xerces (or another parser) in the classpath.  Adding the lib/
directory by itself doesn't work - add /lib/xerces.jar instead.  Also
most people use a jdom jar rather than class files.


--
Ian.


Bob Tykulsker wrote:
> 
> Hello World,
> 
> I am having trouble building the PrettyPrinter class documented in
> http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-05-2000/jw-0518-jdom-2.html
> 
> 1) I downloaded and installed jdk1.3.1 and jdom-b7
> 
> 2) I set my CLASSPATH as follows:
> % echo $CLASSPATH
> .:/home/bobt/apps/jdom-b7/lib:/home/bobt/apps/jdom-b7/build:/home/bobt/apps/
> jdom-b7/build/classes:/home/bobt/apps/jdk1.3.1/lib
> 
> 3) I create the file PrettyPrinter.java as follows
> [bobt at gw boggle]$ cat PrettyPrinter.java
> import java.io.*;
> import org.jdom.*;
> import org.jdom.input.*;
> import org.jdom.output.*;
> 
> public class PrettyPrinter {
>    public static void main(String[] args) {
>         // Assume filename argument
>         String filename = args[0];
> 
>         try {
>             // Build the document with SAX and Xerces, no validation
>             SAXBuilder builder = new SAXBuilder();
>             // Create the document
>             Document doc = builder.build(new File(filename));
> 
>             // Output the document, use standard formatter
>             XMLOutputter fmt = new XMLOutputter();
>             fmt.output(doc, System.out);
>         } catch (Exception e) {
>             e.printStackTrace();
>         }
>     }
> }
> 
> 4) when I try to compile, I get the following error message:
> % javac PrettyPrinter.java
> PrettyPrinter.java:15: cannot access org.xml.sax.InputSource
> file org/xml/sax/InputSource.class not found
>             Document doc = builder.build(new File(filename));
>                                   ^
> 1 error
> 
> Any clue as to what I am doing wrong?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> BobT