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I have an XML paring error that I'm trying to figure out; hope
someone can help.

I am using XDK 9.2 with Java 1.2 on Solaris. The code I'm using is
adapted from Steve Muench's example of XMLDocumentSplitter class in
his book 'Building Oracle XML Applications.' Here's the relevant
code snippet:
public void split(URL fileURL, String splitElement)
throws SAXParseException,SAXException,IOException {
this.fileURL = fileURL;
this.splitOnElement = splitElement;
// Create a new SAXParser
Parser parser = new SAXParser();
// Register the current instance of this class as the Document Handler
parser.setDocumentHandler(this);
// Create a SAX InputSource on the URL's InputStream
InputSource is = new InputSource(fileURL.openStream());
// Start parsing the stream of XML
parser.parse(is);
}

And here is the error message:
Exception in thread "main" oracle.xml.parser.v2.XMLParseException: Error opening external DTD 'r_base.dtd'.
at java.lang.Throwable.fillInStackTrace(Native Method)
at java.lang.Throwable.fillInStackTrace(Compiled Code)
at java.lang.Throwable.<init>(Compiled Code)
at java.lang.Exception.<init>(Exception.java:42)
at org.xml.sax.SAXException.<init>(SAXException.java:45)
at org.xml.sax.SAXParseException.<init>(SAXParseException.java:116)
at oracle.xml.parser.v2.XMLParseException.<init>(XMLParseException.java:62)
at oracle.xml.parser.v2.XMLError.flushErrors(XMLError.java:148)
at oracle.xml.parser.v2.NonValidatingParser.pushExternalDTD(NonValidatingParser.java:522)
at oracle.xml.parser.v2.NonValidatingParser.parseDoctypeDecl(NonValidatingParser.java:441)
at oracle.xml.parser.v2.NonValidatingParser.parseProlog(NonValidatingParser.java:274)
at oracle.xml.parser.v2.NonValidatingParser.parseDocument(NonValidatingParser.java:253)
at oracle.xml.parser.v2.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:145)
at XMLDocumentSplitter.split(XMLDocumentSplitter.java:33)
at SAXLoader.main(SAXLoader.java:15)

The beginning of the XML file that is being parsed is:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE r_base SYSTEM "r_base.dtd">
<r_base>
<ROW num="1">
<SITE_DATATYPE_ID>1984</SITE_DATATYPE_ID>
...

I see that some of the classes have been deprecated.
Would anyone have any suggestions for trouble shooting this?
At this point I've exhausted what to troubleshoot.
I cannot find the API documentation for a NonValidatingParser in
the javaDoc for Oracle's XDK.

Any suggestions appreciated...
--rick
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