[jdom-interest] malformed URL exception exception in saxbuilder.build due to unreachable URL

[cliff palmer]

Thanks Oliver - I don't need access to the unreachable/malformed URL,
I just need to instantiate the XML that is there so I can step through
it and determine what tags are there.
Is there a way to tell JDOM to ignore external references and not be
concerned about URLs ?
Thanks
Cliff

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Oliver Ruebenacker <curoli at gmail.com> wrote:
>     Hello,
>
>  I don't know anything about SAX, but the error says the problem is
> not an unreachable URL, but a malformed one. Somehow, it seems to try
> to use "<?xml version="1.0"?>" as an URL. Apparently, the content of
> an XML file (or the first line of it) is used where a URL should be
> used.
>
>     Take care
>     Oliver
>
> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 4:31 PM, cliff palmer <palmercliff at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I don't believe this is a DTD problem - no DTD is referenced.
>> This is the stack trace:
>> at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:567)
>>        at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:464)
>>        at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:413)
>>        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLEntityManager.setupCurrentEntity(XMLEntityManager.java:650)
>>        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLVersionDetector.determineDocVersion(XMLVersionDetector.java:186)
>>        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:772)
>>        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:737)
>>        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:119)
>>        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1205)
>>        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(SAXParserImpl.java:522)
>>        at org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder.build(SAXBuilder.java:518)
>>        at org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder.build(SAXBuilder.java:986)
>>        at com.dt.XMLUtility.ProfileXMLAttributes.process(ProfileXMLAttributes.java:162)
>>        at com.dt.XMLUtility.main.main(main.java:22)
>> java.io.FileNotFoundException:
>> /home/cpalmer/workspace/ProfileXMLAttributes/< (No such file or
>> directory)
>>        at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method)
>>        at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:120)
>>        at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:79)
>>        at sun.net.www.protocol.file.FileURLConnection.connect(FileURLConnection.java:70)
>>        at sun.net.www.protocol.file.FileURLConnection.getInputStream(FileURLConnection.java:161)
>>        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLEntityManager.setupCurrentEntity(XMLEntityManager.java:653)
>>        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLVersionDetector.determineDocVersion(XMLVersionDetector.java:186)
>>        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:772)
>>        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:737)
>>        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:119)
>>        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1205)
>>        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(SAXParserImpl.java:522)
>>        at org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder.build(SAXBuilder.java:518)
>>        at org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder.build(SAXBuilder.java:986)
>>        at com.dt.XMLUtility.ProfileXMLAttributes.process(ProfileXMLAttributes.java:162)
>>        at com.dt.XMLUtility.main.main(main.java:22)
>> java.net.MalformedURLException: no protocol: <?xml version="1.0"?>
>>
>> Thanks
>> Cliff
>>
>> On 2/9/12, Paul Libbrecht <paul at hoplahup.net> wrote:
>>> Cliff,
>>>
>>> this doesn't sound reasonable to me. I have never seen code doing such and
>>> would not expect it (I also run jdom offline quite often).
>>>
>>> Could it be the DTD is hitting you?
>>> Can you copy a full stacktrace?
>>>
>>> thanks in advance
>>>
>>> Paul
>>>
>>>
>>> Le 9 févr. 2012 à 21:54, cliff palmer a écrit :
>>>
>>>> I'm reading through several hundred thousand existing XML documents
>>>> building counts of XML tags and have encountered a
>>>> Java.net.MalformedURL Exception raised by saxBuilder.build because the
>>>> xmlns points to a URL that can not be reached.
>>>> I am using JDOM 1.1.2.
>>>> Is there a call or parameter setting that will cause saxBuilder to
>>>> ignore namespaces when parsing?
>>>> Thanks!
>>>> Cliff
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