Jeroen, Did you look at the xml file through a brower? Maybe there is something there you aren't seeing. I have done the exact same thing, opening an http page as a streamsource, using php as the source. Every error I saw came in malformed xml. Which is what it sounds like you have.
Russ -----Original Message----- From: Kransen, J. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 5:16 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Parsing XML file retrieved through HTTP Hello, I have a .jsp that outputs a XML file. I have another .jsp in which I want to parse the XML file using an XSL file. So in the latter .jsp I want to do something like this: <textarea><% String xslFile = getServletContext().getRealPath("/xml/risc2cvs.xsl"); TransformerFactory tFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance(); Transformer transformer = tFactory.newTransformer(new StreamSource(xslFile)); // write the content of the parsed XML file transformer.transform(new StreamSource("http://localhost/risc/readonly.jsp";), new StreamResult(out)); %></textarea> However, when I do this, I get the following error message: The element type "base" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "". With this stack trace: javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: The element type "base" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "". at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerImpl.fatalError(TransformerImpl. java :744) at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerImpl.transform(TransformerImpl.j ava: 720) at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerImpl.transform(TransformerImpl.j ava: 1192) at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerImpl.transform(TransformerImpl.j ava: 1170) at org.apache.jsp.cvs_005fuittreksel_jsp._jspService(cvs_005fuittreksel_jsp jav a:109) .. When instead I try to parse a local XML file, there are no problems: String xmlFile = getServletContext().getRealPath("/xml/temp.xml"); transformer.transform(new StreamSource(xmlFile), new StreamResult(out)); But then, when I try to parse the very same file as accessed through HTTP, I get the very same error: transformer.transform(new StreamSource("http://localhost/risc/xml/temp.xml";), new StreamResult(out)); I was thinking that maybe the HTTP headers aren't stripped before the parsing. Does anybody know what to do here? Thanks in advance! Jeroen
