XML schema location

[Tobias.Bischof]

Hi,

i'm using xerces2 to deal with XML files my JAVA app stores data in.
Now i have my schema located in %program-path%/resources but want to be
free to store my XML files wherever i want and also don't want to
hard-code %program-path%/resources into the XML file.

I think Xerces looks in the Java-Classpath for the schema but this
didn't work..

Is there any way to tell Xerces where to look for the schema at
runtime?

Thanks alot!

 

[George Bina]

Hi,

The best solution is to use a catalog to map from the schema locations
from your file to actual locak schema documents. Xerces supports XML
Catalogs, see http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/faq-xcatalogs.html
Another possibility is to set your own entity resolver and resolve the
document locations to the actual documents.

Best Regards,
George

 

[Joe Kesselman]

To specify your own search algorithm, write and plug in an Entity
Resolver. (I believe that's used for schemas as well.) See the Xerces
docs for details.

 

[Joe Kesselman]

.... Or URI Resolver. (I've forgotten whether both are supported or if
there was a namechange in that interface; should be easy to check.)