Ignore DTD element in a XOM Parser to avoid no File found exception

dtd, java, parsing, xom

Solution

I imported SAX libraries

import java.io.File;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import org.xml.sax.XMLReader;
import org.xml.sax.helpers.XMLReaderFactory;

Created SAX XML Reader

XMLReader xmlReader = XMLReaderFactory.createXMLReader();

Set the feature to false

    xmlReader.setFeature("http://apache.org/xml/features/nonvalidating/load-external-dtd", false);

Created a builder using the above XMLReader

Builder builder = new Builder(xmlReader);

Parsed it using XOM parser

nu.xom.Document doc = builder.build(fXmlFile);

Problem

I need to ignore this DTD file path in the below XML to avoid file not found exception. ``` <?xml version='1.0' encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE Document SYSTEM "/usr/home/billadm/release/binaries_39862//CMS/resource.4444/docgenlib/BillingDocument.dtd"> <Document Sender="Testing Me" Id="130713BA00873650912" BAId="BA0087365091"> <Summary> ... </Summary> ``` I use XOM Parser to parse the XML file using the below Java Code. I am sure I don't need this DTD. I read about entityResolvers and setFeature as false but I could not apply any on the below XOM Parser ``` public static void main (String [] args) { try { File folder = new File("D:\\Yahya_sum/"); File[] listOfFiles = folder.listFiles(); for (int i = 0; i < listOfFiles.length; i++) { if (listOfFiles[i].isFile()) { System.out.println("File " + listOfFiles[i].getName()); } else if (listOfFiles[i].isDirectory()) { System.out.println("Directory " + listOfFiles[i].getName()); } String filename = "D:\\Yahya_sum\\"+listOfFiles[i].getName(); File fXmlFile = new File (filename); Builder builder = new Builder(); nu.xom.Document doc = builder.build(fXmlFile); String outputFile = i+" - sum.txt"; PrintWriter writer = new PrintWriter(outputFile, "UTF-8"); nu.xom.Element summary = doc.getRootElement().getFirstChildElement("Summary"); ```

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