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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've read most of the information on validation in
the archives but I still have a problem with validating a document.
</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have a valid XML document & corrosponding
DTD but I keep on getting errors when I am trying to build a document from it
with valid being set to true. I noticed that the xercies.jar file must be
at the proper spot in my classpath (before any other parsers), which is
done.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Do you know what is going on here? I'm new to
JDOM and I'd really appreciate any help on this one.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Cheers,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Shari</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>org.jdom.JDOMException: Error on line 1: An element
with the identifier "JD0003" must appear in the
document.<BR> at
org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder.build(SAXBuilder.java:407)<BR>
at
org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder.build(SAXBuilder.java:428)<BR>
at
CPEX2.CPEXTranslator.readCPEX(CPEXTranslator.java:57)<BR>
at CPEX2.Tester.main(Tester.java:25)<BR>Root cause:
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: An element with the identifier "JD0003" must
appear in the document.<BR> at
org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLParser.reportError(XMLParser.java:1008)<BR>
at
org.apache.xerces.validators.common.XMLValidator.reportRecoverableXMLError(XMLValidator.java:1250)<BR>
at
org.apache.xerces.validators.common.XMLValidator.callEndElement(XMLValidator.java:1028)<BR>
at
org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLDocumentScanner$ContentDispatcher.dispatch(XMLDocumentScanner.java:1255)<BR>
at
org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLDocumentScanner.parseSome(XMLDocumentScanner.java:380)<BR>
at
org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:900)<BR>
at
org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder.build(SAXBuilder.java:395)<BR>
at
org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder.build(SAXBuilder.java:428)<BR>
at
CPEX2.CPEXTranslator.readCPEX(CPEXTranslator.java:57)<BR>
at
CPEX2.Tester.main(Tester.java:25)<BR>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------</FONT></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>