I can see another recent change in behaviour. The application that i mentioned has been working perfectly, but now fails for another reason.
It has a simple front xml file which declares some other files via systemIdentifiers and includes them as entities - a legacy aggregator. Here is a cut-down. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?> <!DOCTYPE zal [ <!ENTITY entconf SYSTEM "spatial_test_13-conf.xml"> ]> <zal> &entconf; <!-- similarly include other files --> </zal> The parser has been quite happy with this, finding the sub-document files in the same directory as the front.xml Following Vadim's suggestion to use <map:generate src="file://var/www/... instead of /var/www/... it does work for a straight XML doc. However, for this doc the parser tries to charge off across the network looking for a host called "var" so as to find the declared system entity on their server at /www/html/zal/.../spatial_test_13-conf.xml ... java.net.UnknownHostException: var Changing it to file:///var/www/... did fix it. So did file:/var/www/... This raises another issue. There seems to be confusion for the syntax. I see various syntaxes in the xdocs ... ----- faq.xml#faq-28 src="file:///c:/foo/" That does not show an example for UNIX so i presume file:////foo/ faq.xml#faq-23 src="/www/Foo/" with a note that this may have to include "file://" ----- sitemap.xml Aggregating has only one mention, saying file://foo/bar ----- file-generator.xml shows only simple filename example and does not have a full pathname example ----- When we get this sorted out, then we can add a mention in sitemap.xml and an FAQ. We need to show the syntax for both UN*X and Win. --David --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]