I don't think this has anything to do with a DTD declaration. To my knowledge, xmlbeans does not process the DTD anyway. The error you get tells me that this issue is with the content in the <id /> element. The way its defined in your instance '&marketing_grp;' will make most parsers errors because when values are entitized they are preceded with & and followed by ;. For example, > becomes > It looks like xmlbeans recognized content meeting the criteria and tried to map it to a value. Since your value has no mapping to a character, the parse failed. I guess the next step would be to look at why you need the content defined as such and/or create the content using entitized values (&marketing_grp;) since you are not using xmlbeans to create it. Also, I think you'll face this issue with most parsers you use, so it may be easiest to fix how you are creating the content. -Jacobd For some more info on entities: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_entities.asp
-----Original Message----- From: Jones, Damon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 4:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Reading entity information from a DTD within the XMLBean Hi, I have XML documents which contain entities. The definitions for the entities are within a DTD file that is in the same directory as the XML file. When I try to read the following XML into my XMLBean: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?> <!-- This is a comment after the first line--> <!DOCTYPE csf-inputs SYSTEM "my_definitions.dtd"> <inputs> <id>&marketing_grp;</id> <address>342 Carlton Way</address> </inputs> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------- I get the following error: org.apache.xmlbeans.XmlException: d:\data\user101\My Documents\inputs_orig.xml:7: error: Reference to undefined entity: marketing_grp at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.newstore2.Locale$SaxLoader.load(Locale.java:278 8) at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.newstore2.Locale.parseToXmlObject(Locale.java:1 101) at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.newstore2.Locale.parseToXmlObject(Locale.java:1 094) at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.schema.SchemaTypeLoaderBase.parse(SchemaTypeLoa derBase.java:334) at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.schema.SchemaTypeLoaderBase.parse(SchemaTypeLoa derBase.java:241) Am I referencing the DTD file in the wrong manner? Is there a better way to do this. thanks, Damon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
