Parsing to XML

Question

Hello everybody.
I'm trying to make an XMLDocument from a String with the next context I have read from a file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE ReporteHoras SYSTEM "ReporteHoras.dtd"><ReporteHoras><Persona nombre="Daniel"><Fecha dia="1/11/2004"><Proyecto cod="001"><Tarea nombre="x"><Horas>8</Horas></Tarea><Tarea nombre="y"><Horas>5</Horas></Tarea></Proyecto></Fecha><Fecha dia="2/11/2004"><Proyecto cod="010"><Tarea nombre="z"><Horas>8</Horas></Tarea></Proyecto></Fecha></Persona></ReporteHoras>
This is the code used for creating the Document:
DocumentBuilderFactory documentBuilderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder documentBuilder = documentBuilderFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
CharArrayReader characterStream = new CharArrayReader(xmlstring.toCharArray());
InputSource is = new InputSource(characterStream);
Document documentXML = documentBuilder.parse(is);
where xmlstring is the string with the xml content showed above.
I have the following exception when doing the parse:
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Content is not allowed in trailing section.
I look for spaces in the text and there aren't any. I think the xml is well formed because I can see it weel with a web browser. Also I have the dtd in the correct path.
I hope you can help me.
Thanks a lot.

Answer 1

Also I have the dtd in the correct path.What does this mean? Your XML does not come from a file; your DTD is declared via a path relative to the XML's path. There is no "correct path" for the DTD in this case.
You could add this line of code:is.setSystemId("a URI relative to which your DTD should be located")to fix that problem. (Put the real URI in there, not that string.) That may or may not make the error go away, XML parsers do not always give helpful error messages.
(And why didn't you just use a StringReader, instead of the more complex thing you did?)