[jdom-interest] Accessing a DTD bundled in a jar file...

[Patrick JUSSEAU]

Thanks so much Rolf, it is working like a charm!

Patrick


On 15 Oct 2003, at 2:05 PM, Rolf Lear wrote:

> Try to use the URL based build() method.
>
> URL url = cl.getSystemResource("xml/" + fileName);
> Document doc = new SAXBuilder().build(url);
>
> Rolf
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick JUSSEAU [mailto:patrick at openbase.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 7:01 AM
> To: jdom-interest at jdom.org
> Subject: [jdom-interest] Accessing a DTD bundled in a jar file...
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to deploy one of my app using Java Web Start. JWS requires
> to put resources inside jar files. Since my app use xml files, I
> creates a xmlLib.jar file with the following output:
>
> xml/test.xml
> xml/test2.xml
> xml/test.dtd
>
> Inside my app, I use a ClassLoader to get xml file Resources as
> InputStream:
>
> ClassLoader cl = getClass().getClassLoader();
> inputStream = cl.getSystemResourceAsStream("xml/" + fileName);
>
> The problem I have is that my xml file reference the test.dtd file as
> follow:
> <!DOCTYPE PARAM SYSTEM "test.dtd">
>
> I get the following exception when running my app
> org.jdom.input.JDOMParseException: Error on line 2: Relative URI
> "test.dtd"; can not be resolved without a base URI.
>          at org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder.build(SAXBuilder.java:381)
>          at org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder.build(SAXBuilder.java:684)
>
> I tried specifying a absolute http path to refer to the dtd file, which
> works but this is not really what I want to do. I want to keep my dtd
> file inside the jar file.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Patrick
>
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