Just thought I'd mention that it should already be possible to do this programmatically. The Catalog class has a parseCatalog(URL) method [1].
Thanks. [1] http://xml.apache.org/commons/components/apidocs/resolver/org/apache/xml/resolver/Catalog.html#parseCatalog(java.net.URL) Michael Glavassevich XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Charles Dylan Shearer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 06/21/2008 09:32:43 AM: > Currently, Resolver allows developers to use paths as values for the > property "catalogs" in CatalogManager.properties. I was wondering how > you all felt about adding support for URLs in this property, so that > users could specify exactly how catalogs are to be located: for > example, "classpath:/com/package/catalog.xml" for catalogs on the > classpath or "file:///directory/catalog.xml" for catalogs on the > filesystem. > > I couldn't tell exactly from the documentation, but it seems that > Resolver currently interprets these paths as referring to the > filesystem. > > What does everyone think? > > Dylan