DOM non validation parsing

[Himanshu Rawat]

Hi,

Please tell me how to parse XML file through DOM without conforming it to any DTD.

DocumentBuilderFactory has got function setValidating(boolean validating) which I'm setting to false but it's still looking for dtd in current directory.

It seems this function is not affecting.

I want to bypass this??

Thanks
Rawat

[Paul Clapham]

That's because DTDs perform other services besides validation. Replacement of entity declarations, for one, and there are others. So just ignoring the DTD might not be a good idea in general.

However it might be possible for you to use an EntityResolver to return an empty document in place of the DTD.

[Himanshu Rawat]

Hi paul,

I tried using entity resolver but still its giving exception.

Below is the code.

parser.setEntityResolver(new EntityResolver() {
public InputSource resolveEntity(java.lang.String publicId,
java.lang.String systemId) throws SAXException,
java.io.IOException {
System.out.println("systemId =" + systemId);

if (systemId
.equals("log4j.dtd")) {
System.out.println("Matched"); -->> its printing this..
return new InputSource(new ByteArrayInputStream("".getBytes()));
} else
return null;
}
});
try {
dom = parser.parse(new File("log.xml"));
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}

Its compiling perfectly fine but still throws nullpointer exception. Please correct me???

Thanks

[Ulf Dittmer]

Its compiling perfectly fine but still throws nullpointer exception.

Which object is null?

[Himanshu Rawat]

dom

[Paul Clapham]

Then an exception is being thrown. You are printing the stack trace, why not look at the output? (And by that I mean, why not tell us what's in the output?)

[Himanshu Rawat]

Hi paul,

Below is the exception

Matched
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.parseInternal(Parser2.java:523)
at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.parse(Parser2.java:304)
at org.apache.crimson.parser.XMLReaderImpl.parse(XMLReaderImpl.java:433)
at org.apache.crimson.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(DocumentBuilderImpl.java:179)
at javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder.parse(DocumentBuilder.java:208)
at ipunity.apps.vm.rep.TransferReports.readLogProperties(TransferReports.java:259)
at ipunity.apps.vm.rep.TransferReports.main(TransferReports.java:67)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.crimson.tree.XmlDocumentBuilder.startElement(XmlDocumentBuilder.java:476)
at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.maybeElement(Parser2.java:1449)
at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.parseInternal(Parser2.java:499)
... 6 more


please tell me what am doing wrong

[Paul Clapham]

Perhaps your EntityResolver should return an InputSource containing a copy of the actual DTD then.

[Himanshu Rawat]

hi Paul,

But again i will ran into same problem.. it will again try to conform against DTD which i don't want.

Any other way to do it?

[William Brogden]

You could pre-process the text stream to remove the DTD reference completely.

Bill

[Paul Clapham]

Himanshu Rawat wrote:But again i will ran into same problem.. it will again try to conform against DTD which i don't want.

I missed where you explained why you don't want that. Why don't you want to apply the DTD?

[Himanshu Rawat]

Hi paul,

I just want to read few values from log.xml file and i don't have any DTD against it. So naturally, I've to avoid any conformance against DTD.

Please help me

[Himanshu Rawat]

Hi William Brogden,

Please tell me how?

[William Brogden]

How to pre-process the input: Actually there are several ways

1. for small XML documents - read the whole thing into a String, locate the DTD reference and remove it, create a java.io.InputStream from the String and use that as input to the parser.

2. for larger documents, create a custom implementation of java.io.FilterInputStream which can read the input stream from the file until it finds the DTD reference and skips it. This InputStream now becomes input to the parser. You may have to do a bit of fiddling to make the parser happy with the start of the input stream.

Bill

[Paul Clapham]

Himanshu Rawat wrote:I just want to read few values from log.xml file and i don't have any DTD against it. So naturally, I've to avoid any conformance against DTD.

But your post suggests this is log4j.dtd you are asking about. What do you mean, you don't have it? You have a URL for it in your XML document. If you're running this program in an environment where you can't access it because of a firewall or something, then go somewhere else and download it so you have a local copy. Then use the EntityResolver to resolve to that local copy.