exception turning validation off.

[Giuseppe Sarno]

Title: exception turning validation off.

I disactivaded the Validation

parser.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/validation",false);
                 parser.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces",false);

and when I run the server I get this exception:

java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:1094)

anyone knows why ?

cheers.