SAX unable to locate DTD from XML

[Sebastian Green]

I have problems with my SAXParser, its not able to find the dtd.

<!DOCTYPE movies SYSTEM "movies.dtd">

I thinks its is because the classfile is runned in a diffrent location then the xmlfile is stored. I have to use this value to get things going.

<!DOCTYPE movies SYSTEM "C:\myxml\movies.dtd">

Is there a work around for this, I would like to keep none-static path to the dtd.

Im using the example code provided by SAX

import java.io.FileReader;
 
import org.xml.sax.XMLReader;
import org.xml.sax.Attributes;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
import org.xml.sax.helpers.XMLReaderFactory;
import org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler;
 

public class MySAXApp extends DefaultHandler
{
 
    public static void main (String args[])
throws Exception
    {
XMLReader xr = XMLReaderFactory.createXMLReader();
MySAXApp handler = new MySAXApp();
xr.setContentHandler(handler);
xr.setErrorHandler(handler);
 
// Parse each file provided on the
// command line.
for (int i = 0; i < args.length; i++) {
    FileReader r = new FileReader(args[i]);
    xr.parse(new InputSource(r));
}
    }
 

    public MySAXApp ()
    {
super();
    }
 

    ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    // Event handlers.
    ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 

    public void startDocument ()
    {
System.out.println("Start document");
    }
 

    public void endDocument ()
    {
System.out.println("End document");
    }
 

    public void startElement (String uri, String name,
      String qName, Attributes atts)
    {
if ("".equals (uri))
    System.out.println("Start element: " + qName);
else
    System.out.println("Start element: {" + uri + "}" + name);
    }
 

    public void endElement (String uri, String name, String qName)
    {
if ("".equals (uri))
    System.out.println("End element: " + qName);
else
    System.out.println("End element:   {" + uri + "}" + name);
    }
 

    public void characters (char ch[], int start, int length)
    {
System.out.print("Characters:    \"");
for (int i = start; i < start + length; i++) {
    switch (ch[i]) {
    case '\\':
System.out.print("\\\\");
break;
    case '"':
System.out.print("\\\"");
break;
    case '\n':
System.out.print("\\n");
break;
    case '\r':
System.out.print("\\r");
break;
    case '\t':
System.out.print("\\t");
break;
    default:
System.out.print(ch[i]);
break;
    }
}
System.out.print("\"\n");
    }
 
}  

[Lasse Koskela]

You probably need to override the resolveEntity() method in your handler class. See the javadoc for some pointers.