LoadFromXML(XMLstream) from a dynamic plugin

Question

I am trying to get an xml file to load from a .jar file. The complication is the following code is run inside a plugin that is called from the source program. I have tried this code in a stand alone program and it seems to work fine, however when I port it back over to the plugin source It doesn't work. I may be off but I think the issue has something to do with being called as a plugin and how that works with the .getResourceAsStream() method call.
Note: IJ.error just pulls up an error box window with some data. I am using NB 6.5 and haven't figured out how to get stops to work in dynamic plugins so I use the error messages as a crutch.
try{
  InputStream XMLstream = getClass().getResourceAsStream("config/ABConfig.xml");
  if (XMLstream == null) {
  IJ.error("File not found");
  //not sure after this point------------------->
  properties.loadFromXML(XMLstream);
  //XMLstream.close();
  //the folloing IJ.errror call doesn't run------------------->
  IJ.error("you passed the loadFromXML statement"); //-sh debug
catch (IOException exception){}and my XML file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE properties SYSTEM "http://java.sun.com/dtd/properties.dtd">
<ActionBarConfig>
  <button>
    <label>automatic</label>
    <icon>auto.GIF</icon>
    <action></action>
    <arg></arg>
  </button>
  <button>
    <label>manual</label>
    <icon>manu.GIF</icon>
    <action></action>
    <arg></arg>
  </button>
</ActionBarConfig>Any help is greatly appreciated.
Seth

Answer 1

It seems the error had nothing to do with dynamic plugins and more to do with the syntax requriements for properties.loadfromxml(). I changed my xml document to:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE properties SYSTEM "http://java.sun.com/dtd/properties.dtd">
<properties>
  <entry key="button"></entry>
  <entry key="label">auto</entry>
  <entry key="icon">auto.gif</entry>
  <entry key="macro"></entry>
  <entry key="arg"></entry>
</properties>and it worked beautifully.