XMLDecoder and Entities

Question

Hi,
I would like to restore a couple of beans using XMLDecoder. However I would like to include entities in the XML source that should point to other XML sources. So I would like to restore the beans from multiple XML files which are 'connected' by <!ENTITY name  SYSTEM "otherFile.xml"> declarations.
Everything works fine so fare except that the SAX parser looks for the entities at the wrong place. If no absolute path is given, the parser uses the current working directory as base folder for resolving the entity location, not the location of the declaring file!
Question: Is there a way to tell XMLDecoder to resolve entites relative to the declaring document, not to some "arbitrary" working directory? (I guess this is what the XML specification says how it should work, right?)
Thanks,
Marcus

Answer 1

Hi,
it seems to me that XMLEncoder retrieves the hash map with get, excepting to get the original and modifiable reference to the hash map and executes put-statements on this reference.
Instead of the way I had expected (and should be logical way too), that XMLDecoder creates a new hash map (with stored values) and to set it via the set-method.
Is my assumption correct?
If yes, does anybody knows, why this way this way (get-method) is used and not the other way (set-method) ?
Cause the current way limits your modifications to the get-method and the Hash map itself to a minimum. (e.g. Collections.unmodifiableMap() isn't possible, also returning a new Map with putAll isn't possible)
Thanks a lot in advance.
Greetings Michael