FW: How do I...

> create a SAX parser that will validate an XML document that has two
> external files:
> 1. a schema file
> 2. an "ents" file containing entity definitions like the following:
> <!ENTITY mdash	"&#38;#x2014;"> <!-- EM DASH -->
> <!ENTITY ndash	"&#38;#x2013;"> <!-- EN DASH -->
> <!ENTITY dash	"&#38;#x2010;"> <!-- HYPHEN -->
> <!ENTITY blank	"&#38;#x2423;"> <!-- OPEN BOX -->
> etc...
> 
> I created a JAXP sax parser with the xerces impl and was able to get it to
> use the schema, but how do I get the parser to read the entities file?  I
> tried overriding resolveEntity() in my subclass of the DefaultHandler as
> follows:
> 
>   public InputSource resolveEntity(java.lang.String publicId,
> java.lang.String systemId) 
>              throws SAXException  {
>        InputSource  source = null;
>        try {
>         source = new InputSource(new FileReader("ents"));
>        } catch(Exception e) {
>        	  System.out.println(e.getMessage());
>        }
>        return source;
>    } 
> 
> This results in the message:
> The markup in the document preceding the root element must be well-formed.
> 
I also tried hacking the ents file into a well-formed XML file and I got the
following error...
s4s-elt-schema-ns: The namespace of element 'document' must be from the
schema namespace.


> Walt Fitzharris
> Lexis Nexis
> 937-865-6800 X54641
> 


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