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From: "Bill Halchin" <bhalchin@hotmail.com>
To: general@xml.apache.org
Cc: bhalchin@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: Trying to use Xerces Java SAX classes
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 05:36:55 GMT
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Thanks Brett for your very generous reply. Now I am using
the Windows side of the house because I cannot get ReadAudio
working on Linux ... I have many problems in life :^).When I
boot Linux side, I will do as you say!

Thanks,

Bill


>From: "Brett McLaughlin" <brett.mclaughlin@lutris.com>
>Reply-To: general@xml.apache.org
>To: general@xml.apache.org
>Subject: Re: Trying to use Xerces Java SAX classes
>Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 23:22:40 -0500
>
>
>
>Bill Halchin wrote:
> >
> > Thanks Ed (and everybody else!),
> >
> >    Ok ...
> >
> >     1) As I think I said before, I am running Red Hat 6.2.
> >
> >     2) I am using the bash shell.
> >
> >     3) In my .bashrc file, I have:
> >
> >            CLASSPATH=$HOME/FTP/xerces-1_1_3/xerces.jar
> >            export CLASSPATH
> >
> >     4) I am running jdk117_v3 from blackdown.org
> >
> > I am trying to compile an instance of the SAX Reader.
> >
> > import org.xml.sax.XMLReader;
> >
> > import org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser;
> >
> > public class SAXParserDemo { ...
> >
> > This is from the book (pg 50) "Java and XML" by Brett McLaughlin
> > published by O'Reilly. The problem I encountering is that the
> > compiler cannot "find" the imported classes/interfaces. Previously,
> > I had mispelled the env var as CLASS_PATH. Now it is correct, i.e.
> > CLASSPATH. I source'd the .bashrc file and did an "echo $CLASSPATH",
> > just to be sure everything was should be but .... the compiler (as a 
>said
> > above) cannot "see" the imported classes. Sigh....
>
>
>Hi Bill. Let's see if we can help you out. Here's what we need:
>
>1) The exact, copied/pasted error, such as:
>
>SAXParserDemo.java:37: Class org.xml.sax.Attributes not found in import.
>import org.xml.sax.Attributes;
>...
>...
>
>2) The exact result of 'echo $CLASSPATH'
>
>3) For each path in $CLASSPATH, the result of 'ls <path>'
>
>So if 'echo $CLASSPATH' results in:
>
>/foo/bar/xerces.jar:/foo/bar
>
>Then you would do:
>
>ls /foo/bar/xerces.jar
>
>ls /foo/bar
>
>This will ensure that your $CLASSPATH has actual entries that correspond
>to exact files and directories, and that those exist. Once we get that,
>plus the exact class missing, we can help you out. What your classpath
>/should/ look like:
>
>1) if xerces.jar is in /projects/lib/xerces.jar
>2) if SAXBuilderDemo is in /projects/javaxml/SAXBuilderDemo.java
>
>'echo $CLASSPATH' should give you:
>
>/projects/lib/xerces.jar:/projects/javaxml
>
>Remember that in addition to the xerces.jar, you need to have the
>directory with the compiled Java class you are working on. So if you got
>something like:
>
>SAXParserDemo.java:37: Class org.xml.sax.Attributes not found in import.
>import org.xml.sax.Attributes;
>
>This would indicate that xerces.jar is missing from your classpath
>(anything org.xml.sax or org.apache.xerces or org.w3c.dom)
>
>Now if you get things compiled, then you could get errors from not
>having the classes in your 'working directory' in the classpath, and you
>would get an error like:
>
>Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: SAXParserDemo
>
>Let us know more about what is happening, and we'll get you hooked up
>;-)
>
>
>Thanks,
>Brett
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Bill halchin
> >
> > >From: "Ed Staub" <estaub@mediaone.net>
> > >Reply-To: general@xml.apache.org
> > >To: <general@xml.apache.org>
> > >Subject: RE: Trying to use Xerces Java SAX classes
> > >Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 21:05:17 -0400
> > >
> > >You need to include the .jar files in your classpath, not just the
> > >surrounding directory.  This is true for any .jar file.
> > >
> > >-Ed Staub
> > >
> > >-----Original Message-----
> > >From: Bill Halchin [mailto:bhalchin@hotmail.com]
> > >Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 4:50 PM
> > >To: general@xml.apache.org
> > >Cc: bhalchin@hotmail.com
> > >Subject: Trying to use Xerces Java SAX classes
> > >
> > >
> > >Hello,
> > >
> > >     I am trying to use the Java SAX classes which reside in the
> > >.jar files. I set my CLASS_PATH env var on Red Hat Linux to
> > >point at the xerces directory. I am running the blackdown 117_v3
> > >javac.
> > >
> > >1) Is it necesary to "unjar" the .jar files in order for javac to
> > >       see the SAX classes?
> > >
> > >2) I tried running "jar -x xerces.jar" but the jar utility seems to
> > >      be waiting for more from stdin?
> > >
> > >Thanks,
> > >
> > >Bill Halchin
> > 
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