SAX entity resolution in servlets

[jason harrop]

Hi

In an application, I can use Xerces to do something like:

                        xmlFile = "file:///home/harry/fastcar/Jaguar.xml"
                        DOMParser parser = new DOMParser();
                        parser.parse(xmlFile);

But in a servlet, I can't..  Instead of file i have to stick it where
apache can see it and use http, thus:

                        xmlFile = "http://127.0.0.1/xml/jaguar.xml
                        :

Similarly, the path to the DTD must be specified with http, not file.

Can anyone explain why please? i've attached the exception below

i'm running JServ 1.1 and xerces 1.0.2 under Linux 

cheers,


jason harrop

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org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: File
"file:///home/harry/fastcar/Jaguar.xml" not found.
        at org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLParser.reportError(Compiled
Code)
        at
org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLParser.startReadingFromDocument(Compiled
Code)
        at org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLParser.parseSomeSetup(Compiled
Code)
        at org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLParser.parse(Compiled Code)
        at org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLParser.parse(Compiled Code)
        at ParseXMLServlet.doGet(Compiled Code)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(Compiled Code)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(Compiled Code)
        at org.apache.jserv.JServConnection.processRequest(Compiled
Code)
        at org.apache.jserv.JServConnection.run(Compiled Code)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Compiled Code)