Allow the application to resolve external entities.
The parser will call this method before opening any external
entity except the top-level document entity. Such entities include
the external DTD subset and external parameter entities referenced
within the DTD (in either case, only if the parser reads external
parameter entities), and external general entities referenced
within the document element (if the parser reads external general
entities). The application may request that the parser locate
the entity itself, that it use an alternative URI, or that it
use data provided by the application (as a character or byte
input stream).
Application writers can use this method to redirect external
system identifiers to secure and/or local URIs, to look up
public identifiers in a catalogue, or to read an entity from a
database or other input source (including, for example, a dialog
box). Neither XML nor SAX specifies a preferred policy for using
public or system IDs to resolve resources. However, SAX specifies
how to interpret any InputSource returned by this method, and that
if none is returned, then the system ID will be dereferenced as
a URL.
If the system identifier is a URL, the SAX parser must
resolve it fully before reporting it to the application.
Returns:
An InputSource object describing the new input source,
or null to request that the parser open a regular
URI connection to the system identifier.
Parameters:
-
publicId - The public identifier of the external entity
being referenced, or null if none was supplied.
-
systemId - The system identifier of the external entity
being referenced.
Throws:
-
org.xml.sax.SAXException - Any SAX exception, possibly
wrapping another exception.
-
java.io.IOException - A Java-specific IO exception,
possibly the result of creating a new InputStream
or Reader for the InputSource.
See Also:
InputSource
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