Resolve Public DTD to a local System id

[Arron Varga]

I am looking for a way to reovle the public id to a local system id. Currently the only way I can get my code to run is to create a directory on my C: drive \kbxml\.

Sample XL Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE KBArticle PUBLIC "-//knowledgecentersupport//DTD KB Articles//EN" "/kbxml/KB_Articles.dtd" [
<!-- Begin Document Specific Declarations -->
<!-- End Document Specific Declarations -->
]>
<?xml-stylesheet href="/kbxml/KB_Articles.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
 
<?Fm Condition Comment Red SINGLE_UNDERLINE show?>
<KBArticle AccessLevel = "Confidential">
    <Heading>Support - Missing PIN/ESN on handheld</Heading> 
...
</KBArticle> 

Sample Java Class:

public class xmltransformer {
   // store the names of the files
   public static String xmlFile, xslFile, resultFile = "";
   // constructor
   public xmltransformer(String xmlFile, String xslFile, String resultFile) {
   try {
 
          
        TransformerFactory tFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
 
         Transformer transformer = tFactory.newTransformer(new StreamSource(xslFile));
 
          // this.publicId.setSystemId("C:\\");
          StreamSource in = new StreamSource(xmlFile);
          //in.setSystemId(".\\StyleSheets\\KB_Articles.dtd");                  
          StreamResult out = new StreamResult(resultFile);
          transformer.transform(in, out);
 

          JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"File Created :"+"\n" + resultFile,"Success",
                         JOptionPane.INFORMATION_MESSAGE);
 
                } catch (TransformerException e){
                  JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,
                                   "Error in transforming the file - "+xmlFile+"\n"+ e,
                                   "Error",
                                   JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
 
                }
        }
 
}

If you look in the sample class, I tried to use setSystemId. However when I use that code my program errors out saying 'missing root element'?

Can anyone help?

Thanks

[Arron Varga]

I know the transformation works, I just need to know how to set a system id for the dtd.