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Hi,

I had an existing class to read/write an xml fle using apache's DOMParser. However after modifying the file to use sun's DOMParser, I see that only the write part works and not the read part. I get a MalformedURLException exception when trying to read the file as follows:

java.net.MalformedURLException: unknown protocol: c

Seems like it the parse method does not like the name of the file. Which starts as C:\...

This is how I am reading the file.

if(rootDocument == null){
DOMParser parser = new DOMParser();
parser.parse(getXmlFileName());
rootDocument = parser.getDocument();
}


private static String getXmlFileName(){
String userHome = System.getProperty("user.home");
return userHome+ "/Preferences/" + peferencesFile ;
}
 
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That's right, a file path is not a URL. You could try to make your path into a file URL by prefixing it with "file://", although I'm never sure whether you need two or three slashes. Or you could see if the parse() method has an overloaded version that takes, for example, a File object.
 
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