Hi Simon Thank you for your detailed and informative reply. I'm wading my way through hibernate & dom4j to see how xerces is used, not an easy task ;)
Cheers! Peter --- Simon Kitching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 14:23, Peter wrote: > > Hi > > > > I have a document with an external entity: > > > > <?xml version="1.0"?> > > <!DOCTYPE hibernate-mapping PUBLIC > > "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Mapping DTD//EN" > > > > > "http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-mapping-2.0.dtd";; > > [ > > <!ENTITY Contingency SYSTEM > > > "components/hsos.contingency.persistence.Contingency.xml"> > > ] > > > > > > > So "components/" is a sub directory in the same > > directory this document is located in. According > to > > RFC 2396 the base URI for the relative path for > the > > external entity should fall back to the location > of > > this document. This works fine validating the > doucment > > with xmllint but when using dom4j/xerces it always > > tries to use "." as the base URI. How can this > > behaviour be changed/corrected? > > Hi Peter, > > If you call a parse method passing a File or URI > then entities *will* > get resolved relative to the source location of the > document. > > But if you call a parse method passing an > InputSource or InputStream > object, then xerces has no idea what the original > source location of the > document it is parsing *is*. I presume this is what > the problem is in > your case. > > When using an InputSource, you can call > InputSource.setSystemId to tell > the parser what the "source location" of the input > document is. > > Regards, > > Simon > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
