java: xml/html file with doctype trying to connect to site

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Hi mwvisa1,
I added this line:
dbf.setValidating(false);
(dbf being the documentbuildfactory)

However, it's still trying to validate.

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That didn't work either. I get the this error:

java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect

Please post your code.

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DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
dbf.setValidating(false);
dbf.setNamespaceAware(false);
dbf.setExpandEntityReferences(false);
			
DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder ( );
	    	
Document doc = db.parse ( new File ( "testing.html" ) );
	   
String newinfo = "add this line";
	   
Element root = doc.getDocumentElement ( );
System.out.println ( root.getNodeName ( ) );
NodeList list = root.getChildNodes ( );
for ( int i = 0; i < list.getLength ( ); i++ ) 
{
   if ( list.item ( i ).getNodeName ( ).equals ( "head" ) ) 
{
       list.item ( i ).setTextContent ( newinfo );
}
}
XMLSerializer serializer = new XMLSerializer ( );
serializer.setOutputCharStream ( new java.io.FileWriter ( "testing.html" ) );
serializer.serialize ( doc );

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I don't understand why you do not get the connection timed out error. Maybe it just means that your system is able to go out and verify the dtd.

I'm still getting: java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect

any other ideas? (I really just want to remove the doctype lines in the xml/html files but unfortunately I can't do that - it's a requirement that they stay in)

Yes, it is strange as you have an Internet connection since you are posting here. :)
Should not have anything to do with it, but guess you can check your firewall settings to see.

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I just don't want it to connect at all. I want it to ignore the validation of dtd.

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