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Subject: EntityResolver Issues  (JAXP)
From: "Brendan W. McAdams" <b.mcadams@themunicenter.com>
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Date: 05 Sep 2002 14:19:41 -0400
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I'm writing a new set of parsers for my company's B2B API using the DOM
under JAXP (Summer '02 release from Sun).

Typically, XML messages our applications receive will get a DTD Header
in them, which is plainly:
<!DOCTYPE Acknowledgement SYSTEM \"TMC_Ack.dtd\"> 

By default, I found that JAXP was turning the systemId into a URI which
was:
file:///usr/local/tmc/TMC_Ack.dtd 

(/usr/local/tmc being the home directory of the user running the App).

This being quite obviously incorrect, I constructed an entity resolved
which reads a system configuration value that contains the base
directory for DTDs, and returns an input source pointing to the proper
DTD:

package com.themunicenter.b2b.xml;

import org.xml.sax.EntityResolver;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;

import com.muni.util.logger.*;

import java.io.File;

public class B2BEntityResolver implements EntityResolver {
    public InputSource resolveEntity (String publicId, String systemId)
{
        TMCLogger log = TMCLogger.getLogInstance("B2BEntityResolver");
        File fSID = new File(systemId);
        String f = fSID.getName();
        String DTDBase = com.muni.util.MCProps.DTDBASE;
        String correctDTD = "file://" + DTDBase + "/" + f;
        log.info(correctDTD);
        InputSource DTD = new InputSource(correctDTD);
        log.info(DTD.getSystemId());
        return DTD;
        
    }
}

(TMCLogger is a log4j derived logger...MCProps simply reads in constants
- DTDBase in this case is
/usr/local/tmc/MuniCenter/com/themunicenter/b2b/xml/DTD)

My 'initialise and parse' block for the XML is as follows:

    // Build factory
        DocumentBuilderFactory factory =
DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
        factory.setValidating(false);
        
        log = TMCLogger.getLogInstance(this.getClass());
        
        try {
            DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
            builder.setEntityResolver(new B2BEntityResolver());
            ByteArrayInputStream xmlStream = createStream(xmlDoc);
            document = builder.parse(xmlStream);          

As you can see, I register my Entity Resolver...and it works to some
level.

I get this in my logfile:
2002-09-05 14:16:58,348 - |B2BEntityResolver|  INFO [main]
(B2BEntityResolver.java:19) -
file:///usr/local/tmc/MuniCenter/com/themunicenter/b2b/xml/DTD/TMC_Ack.dtd
2002-09-05 14:16:58,656 - |com.themunicenter.b2b.xml.B2BAck| ERROR
[main] (B2BMsg.java:48) - *** Parsing error at Line 0; URI: Null Entity
File "file:///usr/local/tmc/MuniCenter.non-sales-corp/TMC_Ack.dtd" not
found.
        at
org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLParser.reportError(XMLParser.java:975)
        at
org.apache.xerces.readers.DefaultEntityHandler.startReadingFromExternalEntity(DefaultEntityHandler.java:768)
        at
org.apache.xerces.readers.DefaultEntityHandler.startReadingFromExternalSubset(DefaultEntityHandler.java:566)
        at
org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLDTDScanner.scanDoctypeDecl(XMLDTDScanner.java:1121)
        at
org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLDocumentScanner.scanDoctypeDecl(XMLDocumentScanner.java:2176)
        at
org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLDocumentScanner.access$0(XMLDocumentScanner.java:2133)
        at
org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLDocumentScanner$XMLDeclDispatcher.dispatch(XMLDocumentScanner.java:775)        at org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLDocumentScanner.parseSome(XMLDocumentScanner.java:380)
        at
org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:861)
        at
org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(DocumentBuilderImpl.java:123)
        at
javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder.parse(DocumentBuilder.java:138)
        at com.themunicenter.b2b.xml.B2BMsg.<init>(B2BMsg.java:44)
        at com.themunicenter.b2b.xml.B2BAck.<init>(B2BAck.java:40)
        at com.themunicenter.b2b.xml.B2BAck.main(B2BAck.java:101)
2002-09-05 14:16:58,660 - |com.themunicenter.b2b.xml.B2BAck| ERROR
[main] (B2BMsg.java:57) - SAX Parse Exception
2002-09-05 14:16:58,661 - |com.themunicenter.b2b.xml.B2BAck|  INFO
[main] (B2BAck.java:45) - Initialized B2BAck.parse()

The EntityResolver is being called, and is returning a proper
InputSource with the correct URI to the DTD.

But the parser seems to be ignoring the new location and I'm at a loss
why.

I need to get this to load the DTD without having to throw my DTDs in an
arbitrary directory as a 'hack'.

Anyone who can help?

-Brendan

-- 
Brendan W. McAdams             | b.mcadams@themunicenter.com
Senior Applications Developer  | (646) 375-1140
TheMuniCenter, LLC             | www.themunicenter.com

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