It does sound like there's some container issue about loading this document.
Can you read the file using a regular FileReader()? If so you could pass the
FileReader into the SAXReader().
James
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Derricutt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 11:20 PM
Subject: [dom4j-user] XML file has no top-element.
> Hi, as part of my webapp I'm using Dom4J to parse an XML file, the Dom4J
> jars are part of my WEB-INF/lib directory.
>
> When I upgraded my resin 2.0.5 install to the new 2.1.0 release, I now get
> the following on startup:
>
> 2002-05-03 14:10:22,774 ERROR td.jtime - Error parsing XML:
> file:/c:/resin/webapps/jtime/WEB-INF/jtime_modules.xml:1: XML file has no
> top-element. All well-formed XML files have a single top-level element.
> Nested exception:
file:/c:/resin/webapps/jtime/WEB-INF/jtime_modules.xml:1:
> XML file has no top-element. All well-formed XML files have a single
> top-level element.
>
> org.dom4j.DocumentException:
> file:/c:/resin/webapps/jtime/WEB-INF/jtime_modules.xml:1: XML file has no
> top-element. All well-formed XML files have a single top-level element.
> Nested exception:
file:/c:/resin/webapps/jtime/WEB-INF/jtime_modules.xml:1:
> XML file has no top-element. All well-formed XML files have a single
> top-level element.
> at org.dom4j.io.SAXReader.read(SAXReader.java:342)
> at org.dom4j.io.SAXReader.read(SAXReader.java:218)
>
>
> Mmmm, I also notice a lack of a standalone.exe in the 2.1.0 zip file...???
>
> Does anyone have any idea what might cause this?
>
> I'm reading my XML with the following code:
>
> String prefix = getServletContext().getRealPath("/");
> ModuleDefinition.getModuleList( prefix +
> getInitParamete("jtime_modules")));
>
> // in ModuleDefinition.getModuleList() (modulesList is passed in)
> File file = new File(modulesList);
> SAXReader reader = new SAXReader();
> Document document = reader.read(file);
>
> I found in some previous posts (to either the dom4j or resin lists)
someone
> mentioned getting around the problem by using...
>
> URL url = file.toURL();
> Document document = reader.read(url.openStream());
>
> ...but that didn't work for me.
>
> Any one know what might cause this?
>
>
>
>
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