SAXException while parsing a well formed XML

Question

Hi all,
I am getting SAXException while parsing even though my XML is well formed.
It is written in the API that SAXException can be thrown for both error and warning. Is there any way to ignore the warnings coming while parsing and hence no SAXException is thrown.
One more weird behavior I am getting is that when I catch the SAXException, it executes the catch block and after that control goes to the next line from where the exception was thrown, and that line is in try block itself. I'll show this with code example:
1.     Try {
2.        DocumentBuilder docBuild = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder();
3.        Document document = docBuild.parse( inputSrc );      //SAXException is thrown on this line
4.        //Some code�
5.     �
6.     } catch (Exception e) {
7.        System.out.println(�Exception while parsing: �+e.getMessage);
8.     }
9.     //Some Code�Ideally when SAXException is thrown on line 3, control should go to the line 7 and the to line 9 after the catch block. But in current senario control is going to line 4 after line 7. It is something very strange happening. My guess is, is it because of some property of SAXException, when thrown for warning?
Any suggetion/advice in this regard will be helpful.
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

First: if an exception is happening, then your XML isn't well-formed. Look at the exception text and see what it's complaining about.
As for why you're not catching the exception: a DocumentBuilder uses an ErrorHandler to handle the different warnings and errors. You can set your own ErrorHandler when parsing. The default (as documented in the link above) simply writes warnings and non-fatal errors to the console, and throws an exception only for fatal errors.