[jdom-interest] BUG? SAXBuilder build(String) method throws MalformedURLException

[Erik Earle]

With code:
<code>
        XMLOutputter prettyOut = new XMLOutputter("  ",true);
        String soap = "<foo></foo>";

        try {
            SAXBuilder sb = new SAXBuilder();
            Document doc = sb.build(soap);
            prettyOut.output(doc,System.out);
        } catch(Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

</code>
I get:
<code>
org.jdom.JDOMException: Error in building: no protocol: <foo></foo>
        at org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder.build(SAXBuilder.java:373)
        at org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder.build(SAXBuilder.java:772)
        at Testy.main(Testy.java:63)
Caused by: java.net.MalformedURLException: no protocol: <foo></foo>
        at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:579)
        at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:476)
        at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:425)
        at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityManager.startEntity(Unknown 
Source)
        at 
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityManager.startDocumentEntity(Unknown Source)
        at 
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.setInputSource(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
        at org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder.build(SAXBuilder.java:354)
        ... 2 more
Caused by: java.net.MalformedURLException: no protocol: <foo></foo>
...
</code>


BUT it works perfectly if I do:
<code>
        XMLOutputter prettyOut = new XMLOutputter("  ",true);
        String soap = "<foo></foo>";

        try {
            SAXBuilder sb = new SAXBuilder();
            Document doc = sb.build( new StringReader(soap) );
            prettyOut.output(doc,System.out);
        } catch(Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
</code>


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