Hi,

Please help:
I am new to the iText. When I run the example in the tutorial, I got
the following error:

This is the example:

public static void main(String[] args) {       
        System.out.println("Chapter 7 example 3: parsing an XML
document with custom tags");        
        // step 1: creation of a document-object
        Document document = new Document(PageSize.A4, 80, 50, 30, 65);
        
        try {            
            // step 2:
            // we create a writer that listens to the document
            // and directs a XML-stream to a file
            PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new
FileOutputStream("Chap0703.pdf"));           
            // step 3: we create a parser and set the document handler
            SAXParser parser =
SAXParserFactory.newInstance().newSAXParser();            
            // step 4: we parse the document
            parser.parse("Chap0703.xml", new SAXmyHandler(document, new
TagMap("tagmap0703.xml")));           
            
        }
        catch(Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
            System.err.println(e.getMessage());
        }
    }





This is the error I get:


[11/1/05 12:02:13:375 EST] 21f921f9 SystemErr     R ExceptionConverter:
java.net.MalformedURLException: java.lang.NullPointerException
[11/1/05 12:02:13:390 EST] 21f921f9 SystemErr     R     at
java.lang.Throwable.<init>(Throwable.java)
[11/1/05 12:02:13:390 EST] 21f921f9 SystemErr     R     at
java.lang.Throwable.<init>(Throwable.java)
[11/1/05 12:02:13:390 EST] 21f921f9 SystemErr     R     at
java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java)
[11/1/05 12:02:13:390 EST] 21f921f9 SystemErr     R     at
java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java)
[11/1/05 12:02:13:390 EST] 21f921f9 SystemErr     R     at
java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:358)
[11/1/05 12:02:13:390 EST] 21f921f9 SystemErr     R     at
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityManager.startEntity(XMLEntityManager.java)
[11/1/05 12:02:13:390 EST] 21f921f9 SystemErr     R     at
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityManager.startDocumentEntity(XMLEntityManager.java:693)
[11/1/05 12:02:13:390 EST] 21f921f9 SystemErr     R     at
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.setInputSource(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:260)
[11/1/05 12:02:13:390 EST] 21f921f9 SystemErr     R     at
org.apache.xerces.parsers.StandardParserConfiguration.parse(StandardParserConfiguration.java:499)
[11/1/05 12:02:13:390 EST] 21f921f9 SystemErr     R     at
org.apache.xerces.parsers.StandardParserConfiguration.parse(StandardParserConfiguration.java:581)
[11/1/05 12:02:13:390 EST] 21f921f9 SystemErr     R     at
org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:147)
[11/1/05 12:02:13:390 EST] 21f921f9 SystemErr     R     at
org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1158)
[11/1/05 12:02:13:390 EST] 21f921f9 SystemErr     R     at
javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
[11/1/05 12:02:13:390 EST] 21f921f9 SystemErr     R     at
com.lowagie.text.xml.TagMap.init(Unknown Source)
[11/1/05 12:02:13:390 EST] 21f921f9 SystemErr     R     at
com.lowagie.text.xml.TagMap.<init>(Unknown Source)
[11/1/05 12:02:13:390 EST] 21f921f9 SystemErr     R     at
com.moog.us.app.action.DataPrintAction.execute(DataPrintAction.java)
[11/1/05 12:02:13:390 EST] 21f921f9 SystemErr     R     at
org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processActionPerform(RequestProcessor.java:484)
[11/1/05 12:02:13:390 EST] 21f921f9 SystemErr     R     at
com.moog.us.struts.AppRequestProcessor.processActionPerform(AppRequestProcessor.java:160)
[11/1/05 12:02:13:390 EST] 21f921f9 SystemErr     R     at
org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.java:274)
[11/1/05 12:02:13:390 EST] 21f921f9 SystemErr     R     at
org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1482)
[11/1/05 12:02:13:390 EST] 21f921f9 SystemErr     R     at
org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doGet(ActionServlet.java:507)
[11/1/05 12:02:13:390 EST] 21f921f9 SystemErr     R     at
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:740)
[11/1/05 12:02:13:390 EST] 21f921f9 SystemErr     R     at
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
[11/1/05 12:02:13:390 EST] 21f921f9 SystemErr     R     at
com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.StrictServletInstance.doService(StrictServletInstance.java:110)
[11/1/05 12:02:13:390 EST] 21f921f9 SystemErr     R     at
com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.StrictLifecycleServlet._service(StrictLifecycleServlet.java:174)
[11/1/05 12:02:13:406 EST] 21f921f9 SystemErr     R     at
com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.IdleServletState.service(StrictLifecycleServlet.java:313)
[11/1/05 12:02:13:406 EST] 21f921f9 SystemErr     R     at
com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.StrictLifecycleServlet.service(StrictLifecycleServlet.java:116)
[11/1/05 12:02:13:406 EST] 21f921f9 SystemErr     R     at
com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletInstance.service(ServletInstance.java:283)
[11/1/05 12:02:13:406 EST] 21f921f9 SystemErr     R     at
com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ValidServletReferenceState.dispatch(ValidServletReferenceState.java:42)
[11/1/05 12:02:13:406 EST] 21f921f9 SystemErr     R     at
com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletInstanceReference.dispatch(ServletInstanceReference.java:40)
[11/1/05 12:02:13:406 EST] 21f921f9 SystemErr     R     at
com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebAppRequestDispatcher.handleWebAppDispatch(WebAppRequestDispatcher.java:948)
[11/1/05 12:02:13:406 EST] 21f921f9 SystemErr     R     at
com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebAppRequestDispatcher.dispatch(WebAppRequestDispatcher.java:530)
[11/1/05 12:02:13:406 EST] 21f921f9 SystemErr     R     at
com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebAppRequestDispatcher.forward(WebAppRequestDispatcher.java:176)
[11/1/05 12:02:13:406 EST] 21f921f9 SystemErr     R     at
com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.srt.WebAppInvoker.doForward(WebAppInvoker.java:79)
[11/1/05 12:02:13:406 EST] 21f921f9 SystemErr     R     at
com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.srt.WebAppInvoker.handleInvocationHook(WebAppInvoker.java:201)
[11/1/05 12:02:13:406 EST] 21f921f9 SystemErr     R     at
com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.cache.invocation.CachedInvocation.handleInvocation(CachedInvocation.java:71)
[11/1/05 12:02:13:406 EST] 21f921f9 SystemErr     R     at
com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.srp.ServletRequestProcessor.dispatchByURI(ServletRequestProcessor.java:182)
[11/1/05 12:02:13:406 EST] 21f921f9 SystemErr     R     at
com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.oselistener.OSEListenerDispatcher.service(OSEListener.java:334)
[11/1/05 12:02:13:406 EST] 21f921f9 SystemErr     R     at
com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.http.HttpConnection.handleRequest(HttpConnection.java:56)
[11/1/05 12:02:13:406 EST] 21f921f9 SystemErr     R     at
com.ibm.ws.http.HttpConnection.readAndHandleRequest(HttpConnection.java:610)
[11/1/05 12:02:13:406 EST] 21f921f9 SystemErr     R     at
com.ibm.ws.http.HttpConnection.run(HttpConnection.java:435)
[11/1/05 12:02:13:406 EST] 21f921f9 SystemErr     R     at
com.ibm.ws.util.ThreadPool$Worker.run(ThreadPool.java)
[11/1/05 12:02:17:500 EST] 21f921f9 SystemErr     R 
java.lang.NullPointerException


                
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