Parsing an xml File with DOMParser without a DTD ?

[Christoph Ehret]

Hi,
I am parsing an XML File using DOMParser from Xerces; I use

  
import org.apache.xerces.parsers.DOMParser;
DOMParser parser = new DOMParser();
parser.parse(xmlDocument);
doc=parser.getDocument();

It seems that when it cannot find the DTD specified in the xml file xmlDocument , it throws an IOException. So how can I make it work without a DTD ?
Thanks
Chris

[Lasse Koskela]

If you'd acquire a parser object through a javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory, you could say factory.setValidating(false).

[jason adam]

Or you can set a variety of features that may meet your needs. That way you don't have to switch back to the DocumentBuilder if you feel like keeping with the DOMParser, or have a need to keep with it.

[Christoph Ehret]

Thanks a lot. Setting the feature

 parser.setFeature("http://apache.org/xml/features/nonvalidating/load-external-dtd", false); 

did it . Thanks .
Chris
[ August 25, 2003: Message edited by: Christoph Ehret ]