getting exception please help

[Ali Gohar]

Hi i am using JDom to parse an xml file. But i am getting exception as following:

org.jdom.JDOMException: Error in building: Connection timed out: connect
at org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder.build(SAXBuilder.java:306)
at org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder.build(SAXBuilder.java:583)

I am developing a web site and i am using following code:

SAXBuilder builder = new SAXBuilder("org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser",false);
 
try{
InputStream in = new FileInputStream("c:/abc.xml");
doc = builder.build(in);//getting error at this level
                   }catch(Exception ex)
                   {
                      ex.printStackTrace();
                    }

[ July 23, 2004: Message edited by: Ali Gohar ]

[Lasse Koskela]

Is the XML file you're reading referring to some URLs which cannot be accessed from your machine?

[Ali Gohar]

Hi,
Thanks for your reply. I am actually trying to parse the Web.xml file and it has the urls that cannot be accessed from my system. So is there any solution for this?

Thanks again.

[Lasse Koskela]

I suppose you're talking about the URLs in the DOCTYPE declaration? If that's the case, you should be able to get rid of the exception by calling setValidating(false) on the DocumentBuilderFactory you're getting your parser from (or SAXParserFactory if you're using SAX instead of DOM).

[Ali Gohar]

Hi Lasse Koskela,

Thanks very much for your replies. I have set the validation to false but it still doing that . Is there anyway to by pass that DocType?

The doctype is

<!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN" "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd">


Regards,
Ali Gohar.
[ July 26, 2004: Message edited by: Ali Gohar ]

[Lasse Koskela]

That's the only way I can think of. Then again, you could always run the document through a filtering class which removes the DOCTYPE declaration from the stream if it finds one.

I.e. instead of

public void process(InputStream xml) {
    Document doc = parse(xml);
}

do something like

public void process(InputStream xml) {
    Document doc = parse(new DoctypeRemovingInputStream(xml));
}