SAXParser Exception : java.net.MalformedURLException: no protocol:

[beefeater267]

Hi,

I'm kind of new to Java and I'm creating a servlet that does the following: it just needs to parse an XML string.

So, I have the following code:

SAXParserFactory parserFactory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();

parserFactory.setValidating(false);
parserFactory.setNamespaceAware(false);

SAXParser parser = parserFactory.newSAXParser();

//derived from DefaultHandler
SSMHandler handler = new SSMHandler();

XMLStatus = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?><Command xmlns=\"

http://www.someurl/abc\"><a><b><c>config</c><d><e>port</e></d></b></a></Command>";

parser.parse(XMLStatus, handler);

So, the code throws an exception on the parse method:

I get :
java.net.MalformedURLException: no protocol:

Can anyone help me out with what is going on here?

Greatly appreciated.

 

[sedj]

Why bother adding an anonymous namespace if you are not using it ?
If you are not validating, nor setting the parser as NS aware, I would just use :

XMLStatus = "<Command><a><b><c>config</c><d><e>port</e></d></b></a></Command>";

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[beefeater267]

Wrong... actually the string parameter is meant to be a URL to a XML file... (not raw xml)

 

[sedj]

So why does your example of the 'XMLStatus' string have a XML content, and not just a URL then ?

Try to post correct data in the future eh ?

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[sedj]

Plus ... your comment of 'Wrong' (while being slightly rude IMO) is actually valid - why use namespaces in the XML if your parser is not namespace aware ?

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[beefeater267]

Sedj,

I thought that the argument took raw XML as a string. I did further research and found out that it must be a URL to a file.

PS..... if I had correct data in my post, I wouldn't be here asking for help