Hello Nida, In general InputStream and Reader objects can only be consumed once. You should create and return a new FileReader (or whatever) each time your EntityResolver is called.
Thanks. Michael Glavassevich XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Nida Duckett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 07/28/2008 04:33:21 PM: > Hello, > > I am trying to set up a SAXParser to parse and validate any input > XML file that contains both DOCTYPE and no DOCTYPE definitions using > a DTD that I specify. After combing through the mailing list > archives, I was able to get it working (thanks to posting > 9e9da3a00702250947n1571e875g92fbe3aa030b23c7 () mail ! gmail ! com). > > However, the posting also warned about it only works for one > document and will not work for subsequent documents. I was > wondering if any workaround or fix has been found to resolve that issue. > > Thanks in advance. > > Nida > > Here is the thread from that old posting for reference: > > List: xerces-j-dev > Subject: Re: Specifying a DTD file when parsing XML files that > don't contain !DOCTYPE lines > From: "Will Holcomb" <wholcomb () gmail ! com> > Date: 2007-02-25 17:47:29 > Message-ID: 9e9da3a00702250947n1571e875g92fbe3aa030b23c7 () mail ! gmail ! com > [Download message RAW] > > One more note about a bug I found in this code. It only works once. When you > parse a second document, you get an exception because the FileReader for the > DTD has already been closed. > > Will Holcomb > > On 2/25/07, Will Holcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I happened to send a message to this list asking this exact question > > > earlier this week. I figure I'll pass on the kindness someone > showed me and > > > answer it this time/ (Perhaps this should go in the FAQ because it isn't > > > really intuitive.) > > > > > > final static String ENTITY_RESOLVER_2_ID = "http://xml. > org/sax/features/use-entity-resolver2"; > > > > > > DocumentBuilderFactory dbFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); > > > dbFactory.setFeature(ENTITY_RESOLVER_2_ID, true); > > > DocumentBuilder builder = dbFactory.newDocumentBuilder(); > > > builder.setEntityResolver(new DTDEntityResolver(new > > > FileReader(dtdFilename))); > > > > > > public class DTDEntityResolver implements EntityResolver2 { > > > InputSource input; > > > public DTDEntityResolver(Reader dtd) { input = new InputSource(dtd); } > > > public InputSource getExternalSubset(String name, String baseURI) > > > > throws SAXException { return input; } > > > public InputSource resolveEntity(String publicId, String > systemId) {return null;} > > > public InputSource resolveEntity(String name, String publicId, String > > > baseURI, String systemId) > > > throws SAXException { return null; } > > > }
