You should specify the protocol: file: http:
etc. -----Original Message----- From: Michael Burbidge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 10, 2000 10:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: DOCTYPE specification... I have the following DOCTYPE specification: <!DOCTYPE film-guide SYSTEM "film-guide.dtd"> According to my understanding, this is a valid DOCTYPE specification, yet I'm failing when parsing the URL. The code throws a XML4CExcepts::URL_MalformedURL exception. When I traced through the code I found that the method URL::findType was looking for a colon in the first 8 characters. If it doesn't find one then it throws the exception. What's up? Why can't I specify a local file as in the above DOCTYPE? Thanks, Mike-