Hi,
If you've the following DOCTYPE declaration
<!DOCTYPE foo SYSTEM "..\..\..\..\bar.dtd">
in a xml file that is residing at some root level directory i.e. for instance "C:\", the xerces-j parser (1.3.0) does not terminate. The problem is most likely that the SYSTEM identifer cannot be resolved i.e. the relative path of the DTD with respect to "C:\" actually does not exist. Unfortunately even if you do not want to do validation, the parser still tries to resolve the path.
Thanks,
Pradeep
