[jdom-interest] SAXBuilder and java.net.URL

[Ian Lea]

You could avoid the problem altogether by calling the
SAXBuilder build(java.io.File) method or just the
build(String) method.  But if you want to use URLs I
would suggest creating a File instance and calling
its toURL() method.  In some circumstances, with
some parsers, you may also need to call the URL
toExternalForm() method to get a valid systemId.

Either way this should spare you from working out
how many / characters you need to include.


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Ian.
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> marisa at dinf.ne.jp (Marisa DeMeglio) wrote 
>
> Hi,
> 
> I am new to the list, and new to Java and JDOM.   So far everything has 
> worked very well, but I am having trouble with SAXBuilder when I try to use 
> it with a java.net.url, that points to a file on my hard drive.
> Here are a few lines of code ...
> 
> ------------------
> SAXBuilder sbuild = new SAXBuilder(false);
> 
> //create a new URL, pointing to a file that exists
> java.net.URL amisxmlURL = new 
> java.net.URL("file://e:/dev/AMIS/Java/config/amis.xml");
> 
> //amisxmlURL.toString() is "file://e:/dev/AMIS/Java/config/amis.xml"
> Document xDoc = sbuild.build(amisxmlURL.toString());  //also I have tried 
> using just amisxmlURL as the parameter
> 
> 
> Debugger tells me: Hit uncaught exception org.jdom.JDOMException
> Bottom status bar of JBuilder6 says: Cannot locate SAXBuilder.java from 
> project source/class path
> 
> ----however, when I do this:
> 
> Document xDoc = sbuild.build("file:////e://dev//AMIS//Java//config//amis.xml");
> 
> I have no problems.  The correct document is returned.   If I try to build 
> a URL with "//" instead of "/", I get a Malformed URL exception.
> I hope this falls under the scope of this group; my apologies if not.  Any 
> advice would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Marisa

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