xerces parser won't open file with brace in the name

[Andy Fish]

Hi,

I am trying to parse a file using Xerces' DOMParser.parse(String systemId)

I have come across a problem where it refuses to open a file with curly braces "{" or "}" in the file name. I just get a SAXException saying the file does not exist

is it trying to do some kind of parameter substitution into the filename?

Andy

 

[Steve W. Jackson]

Hi,

I am trying to parse a file using Xerces' DOMParser.parse(String systemId)

I have come across a problem where it refuses to open a file with curly braces "{" or "}" in the file name. I just get a SAXException saying the file does not exist

is it trying to do some kind of parameter substitution into the filename?

Andy

...

This isn't an issue with the parser. Try simply reading that same file as a stream of bytes, for instance, and you should find that it's something else. Solve it there and you'll be able to parse it. How it's solved probably depends on language, OS, filesystem, etc.

= Steve =

 

[Richard Tobin]

I have come across a problem where it refuses to open a file with curly braces "{" or "}" in the file name. I just get a SAXException saying the file does not exist

System identifiers are URIs, and "{" and "}" are among the characters that have to be escaped when used in URIs. The parser *ought* to do this for you, but I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't. Try using %7B instead of { and %7D instead of } to see if that's the problem.

-- Richard

 

[Andy Fish]

not so, I'm afraid. This works fine:

parser.parse (new InputSource(new FileInputStream(filename)));

but these do not:

parser.parse (new InputSource(filename));
parser.parse (filename);

Anyway, thanks for the idea. At least I have my workaround now

Andy