[jdom-interest] BUG? SAXBuilder build(String) method throws MalformedURLException

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 12:56 PM -0500 3/14/03, Erik Earle wrote:
>With code:
><code>
>        XMLOutputter prettyOut = new XMLOutputter("  ",true);
>        String soap = "<foo></foo>";
>
>        try {
>            SAXBuilder sb = new SAXBuilder();
>            Document doc = sb.build(soap)

That constructor doesn't do what you think it does. The string 
argument is supposed to be a URL pointing to the document, not the 
document itself. Use a StringReader to do what you want.
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