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Log4j, MalformedURLException: no protocol: log4j.dtd

 
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I am using
Jakarta Log4j version 1.2.7
Xerces-J version 2.0.2
I have a configuration file called log4j.xml
The first two lines of log4j.xml are:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE log4j:configuration SYSTEM "log4j.dtd">
When I invoke
LogFactory.getLog(java.lang.Class)
I observe an exception.
This is the exception stack trace:
java.net.MalformedURLException: no protocol: log4j.dtd
java.lang.Throwable(java.lang.String)
java.lang.Exception(java.lang.String)
java.io.IOException(java.lang.String)
java.net.MalformedURLException(java.lang.String)
java.net.URL(java.net.URL, java.lang.String,
java.net.URLStreamHandler)
java.net.URL(java.net.URL, java.lang.String)
java.net.URL(java.lang.String)
void
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityManager.startEntity(java.lang.String,
org.apache.xerces.xni.parser.XMLInputSource, boolean, boolean)
void
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityManager.startDTDEntity(org.apache.xerces.xni
.parser.XMLInputSource)
void
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDTDScannerImpl.setInputSource(org.apache.xerces.xn
i.parser.XMLInputSource)
boolean
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$DTDDispatcher.dispatch(boolean
)
boolean
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(boolean)
boolean org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(boolean)
void
org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(org.apache.xerces.xni.parse
r.XMLInputSource)
void
org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(org.apache.xerces.xni.parser.XMLIn
putSource)
void
org.apache.xerces.parsers.DOMParser.parse(org.xml.sax.InputSource)
org.w3c.dom.Document
org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(org.xml.sax.InputSource)
void
org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator.doConfigure(org.xml.sax.InputSource,
org.apache.log4j.spi.LoggerRepository)
void
org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator.doConfigure(java.io.InputStream,
org.apache.log4j.spi.LoggerRepository)
void org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator.doConfigure(java.net.URL,
org.apache.log4j.spi.LoggerRepository)
void
org.apache.log4j.helpers.OptionConverter.selectAndConfigure(java.net.URL,
java.lang.String, org.apache.log4j.spi.LoggerRepository)
org.apache.log4j.Category
org.apache.log4j.Category.getInstance(java.lang.Class)
org.apache.log4j.Category
org.apache.log4j.Category.getInstance(java.lang.Class)
org.apache.commons.logging.Log
org.apache.commons.logging.impl.Log4jFactory.getInstance(java.lang.Class)
org.apache.commons.logging.Log
org.apache.commons.logging.impl.LogFactoryImpl.getInstance(java.lang.Class)
org.apache.commons.logging.Log
org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory.getLog(java.lang.Class)
How do I fix this?
 
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Sean
At some point it's trying to do a

which makes no sense, hence the error.
Your <!DOCTYPE log4j.dtd> line isn't in a url format, you could try file:///tmp/log4j.dtd or wherever it is instead of just log4j.dtd (or host it on a web server and use http:// if you want your dtd to be in a single place.
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I also am getting a similar error. But by a different route.

The error is:
java.net.MalformedURLException: no protocol: <?xml version="1.0"?>

the error message e that is returned, is the XML input.

I am using the following to attempt to parse the XML input:

String dhlResponse = "The XML response from the web service";

the handler is just that, if it finds a particular tag it stores it in a stringBuffer.

try {
factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
saxParser = factory.newSAXParser();
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println("In ShipmentTrackingAction.execute - " + e);
}


saxParser.parse(dhlResponse, handler);

Can we get to some conclusion by this?

edwyn@berrey.com
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