[jdom-interest] EntityResolver (DTD Not Found)

[Brett McLaughlin]

> Right. The solution suggested originally is wrong. When an EntityResolver
> returns null from resolveEntity, it means "I have no clue about this
entity,
> you (the parser) try looking it up however you can" -- which usually means
> the parser will try interpreting the system id as an URL or a file, then
> give up. If you really want to provide an empty entity, you could try
> returning
>
>   new InputSource(new StringReader(""))
>
> instead of null.


Yup, I was getting ready to answer your mail, looked at my quoted reply, and
noticed a nice missing else statement. Should have been:

public class MyResolver implements EntityResolver {
   public InputSource resolveEntity (String publicId, String systemId)
   {
     if (systemId.equals("http://www.myhost.com/today")) {
              // return a special input source
       return new InputSource(new StringReader(""));
     } else {
              // use the default behaviour
       return null;
     }
   }
 }

Too much coffee that day, I guess; got send-happy ;-)

Nice catch, Attila.

-Brett
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Brett McLaughlin
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