Garrett Rooney wrote:
>[snip]
> That kind of error tends to result from passing a null stream to
> parse(). When you say that the path to simple.xml was "valid", do you
> mean you gave it a full system path, like:
>
Yep. I've seen this on several occasions and it always happens on a null
stream. We need to add some error checking on that
> InputStream in =
> Parse.class.getResourceAsStream("/home/rooneg/.../simple.xml");
>
> If so, that's incorrect, getResourceAsStream tries to pull a file out
> of the classpath, so you need to make sure a directory containing that
> file (i.e. the resources directory, or someplace the contents of that
> directory are copied) is in the classpath when you run the test.
>
>> Any thoughts? Are there plans to use other parsers such as JDOM?
>
> I don't know, do you plan to write a parser that uses JDOM? ;-)
>
> Seriously, as I understand it, Abdera is written in such a way as to
> allow multiple parser back ends, so the only limitation is the lack of
> volunteers to write parser back ends for whatever kind of XML parser
> is desired.
>
Yep, although the barrier is a bit high. The FOM* impl classes are
dependent on the Axiom implementation. So you either implement JDOM as
a layer under Axiom or create a JDOM-based impl of the FOM* classes.
> -garrett
>
