Hi Maksym,

They're not really 'wild guesses' but I bet there's still some URI
bugs (that I don't know of) out there, so you neve know. This problem
seems to come up enough that it should probably be in the FAQs. I'll put
it on my TODO list. :-)

On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Maksym Kovalenko wrote:

> Michael, how many exactly these wild guesses you have wrote in past
> let's say 3 months. I bet a dozen at least.
> I wanted to reply but thought that you probably have an e-mail template
> for this question ;-)
>
> Michael Glavassevich wrote:
>
> >Hi Eric,
> >
> >I'm going to take a wild guess and assume you're parsing your document
> >from an java.io.InputStream or org.xml.sax.InputSource (depending on the
> >API you're using). Relative URIs require a context for resolution. If
> >you're parsing with an InputSource you need to set the system ID on this
> >object. If you're parsing directly from an InputStream like with JAXP, you
> >need to call the parse method which also accepts a system ID. If you don't
> >do this the parser will just use the current working directory (the value
> >of the system property user.dir) as the base URI for resolution, which
> >in general won't be the desired behaviour.
> >
> >On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Eric Sirianni wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>I am trying to parse the following XML document using Xerces-J:
> >>
> >><?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
> >><!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
> >>"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd"; [
> >>    <!ENTITY chap1 SYSTEM "chap1.xml">
> >>    <!ENTITY chap2 SYSTEM "chap2.xml">
> >>]>
> >><book>
> >>&chap1;
> >>&chap2;
> >></book>
> >>
> >>The parser seems to be having an issue resolving the locations of chap1.xml
> >>and chap2.xml.  It appears to be looking for them in the directory from
> >>which I ran java, instead of relative to the original XML doc.  Here is the
> >>error I receive:
> >>
> >>java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\wherever-i-run-java\chap1.xml (The system
> >>cannot find the file specified)
> >>
> >>Clearly, I don't want to add full path names to these entity declarations.
> >>The XML document above and chap1.xml and chap2.xml are all in the same
> >>directory, so I would expect the parser to attempt to search there first...
> >>no?
> >>
> >>This must be a common issue, but I can't find any information on how to
> >>resolve this...
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>Eric
> >>
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