Question

When I parse my xml file (variable f) in this method, I get an error

C:\Documents and Settings\joe\Desktop\aicpcudev\OnlineModule\map.dtd (The system cannot find the path specified)

I know I do not have the dtd, nor do I need it. How can I parse this File object into a Document object while ignoring DTD reference errors?

private static Document getDoc(File f, String docId) throws Exception{     DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();     DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();     Document doc = db.parse(f);       return doc; } 

Answer 1

A similar approach to the one suggested by @anjanb

    builder.setEntityResolver(new EntityResolver() {         @Override         public InputSource resolveEntity(String publicId, String systemId)                 throws SAXException, IOException {             if (systemId.contains('foo.dtd')) {                 return new InputSource(new StringReader(''));             } else {                 return null;             }         }     }); 

I found that simply returning an empty InputSource worked just as well?