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java.net.URISyntaxException: Illegal character in opaque part

hi,

i've been working on a project where i needed to transform xml into hmtl using xsl with saxon.
so i used the following code:
System.setProperty("javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory", "net.sf.saxon.TransformerFactoryImpl");
Source xmlSource = new StreamSource("C:\\installaxiom\\axiom_app\\class\\XMLFile.xml");
Source xsltSource = new StreamSource("C:\\installaxiom\\axiom_app\\class\\XMLFile.xsl");
Result result = new StreamResult(out);
TransformerFactory transFact = TransformerFactory.newInstance( );
Transformer trans = transFact.newTransformer(xsltSource);
trans.transform(xmlSource, result);

it works fine and then i want to use the xmlfile and another xsl to create a new xml file as follows:
Source xmlSource2 = new StreamSource("C:\\installaxiom\\axiom_app\\class\\XMLFile.xml");
Source xsltSource2 = new StreamSource("C:\\installaxiom\\axiom_app\\class\\RawToTreeDataXML.xsl");
Result result2 = new StreamResult("C:\\installaxiom\\axiom_app\\class\\TreeDataXML.xml");
TransformerFactory transFact2 = TransformerFactory.newInstance( );
Transformer trans2 = transFact2.newTransformer(xsltSource2);
trans2.transform(xmlSource2, result2);

but i get this error:
javax.servlet.ServletException: java.net.URISyntaxException: Illegal character in opaque part at index 2: C:\installaxiom\axiom_app\class\TreeDataXML.xml

which i don't understand coz i'm using on both xml the same encoding which is "iso-8859-1".
if i try to apply the xsl to the xml in command line it works fine.

any ideas?

thankx in advance to all
miraodb

PointyEars

I am not familiar with what you are doing, but I found that the colon in a path is not always handled properly.

If C is the boot volume, you should be able to drop "C:" from your path and start directly with "\\installaxiom".

Perhaps a long shot and I wouldn't be able to help you further if this didn't work, but it is easy to try it out...

miraodb

ASKER

well i just tried and it still shows the same error.
anyway i didn't see why it would work for the first transformation and not for the second.

i really have no idea of what's goin' on !

miraodb

sarathtly

Check the namespace URI / URL
Or check the any there exists any links to external documents such as Schemas

miraodb

ASKER

i'm using jsp to execute an xsl on an xsl, so when i get the error javax.servlet.ServletException: java.net.URISyntaxException: Illegal character in opaque part at index 2: C:\installaxiom\axiom_app\class\TreeDataXML.xml

the actual file treedata.xml doesn't exist yet ! so schemas shouldn't be a problem at this point.
and also it works fine under the command line.

the namespace of which one the original xml? it's:
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

i don't think this should interfere here.

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thankx to both of you.

i splited the points.

miraodb

CEHJ

>>this works for absolute and relative paths...

Easier and less error-prone to do:

new StreamSource(new File("C:/installaxiom/axiom_app/class/XMLFile.xml").toURL());

CEHJ

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