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Dennis Geller wrote:
> Thanks. Very helpful.  However, having cleared that (and lots more 
> that derived from it) up, I think I'm good for now (with one more 
> question, below)
> First, in case it helps anyone else, after following your suggestions 
> I found  that art of my problem/confusion was that I had managed to 
> not have parallel directory hierarchies under descriptors and src -- 
> that made attempting to replicate the tutorial example unlikely to 
> succeed. When I straightened that out I was unable to run until I 
> added the directory that contains the TypeSystem.xml file to the class 
> path.  I don't believe the example needed that, but I sure did.
UIMA Descriptors have an "<import>" capability, to include other 
descriptors within them.  Many of the examples use this, for instance, 
to include a common type system specification.  There are 2 ways to 
refer to what you are importing - by "location" or by "name".  If you do 
things by "name", then UIMA uses Java's ability to locate resources by 
name in the Classpath (or UIMA Datapath).  If your descriptors import 
the type system "by name", then it is best to include it in your class path.
>
> I just almost had a successful run. However, it coughed because a file 
> had a "non-XML character, 0x0." 
Where was this character?  If it was in your XML descriptors, then that 
needs to be corrected.  It is possible to analyze arbitrary data, 
including "byte" data containing any characters, in UIMA; see 
http://incubator.apache.org/uima/downloads/releaseDocs/2.2.1-incubating/docs/html/tutorials_and_users_guides/tutorials_and_users_guides.html#ugr.tug.aas.sofa_data_formats
> This also happened when i was running the unmodified tutorial example.
Can you say where this character occurred in the unmodified tutorial example

-Marshall