Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

Hello,

I'm new to Java/XML and have been searching the XML forums for a viable answer trying to get around this error
"White spaces are required between publicId and systemId"

I'm a little unsure of this, however my understanding of this error is that "whitespace" must exist between my "tag entities". So I have modified my XML document to include white space between entities...below is a snippet of my XML doc

// Begin snippet...

<auth>
<userid>
12345
</userid>
<first>
first value
</first>
<second>

</second>
</auth>

//End snippet

Below is the fragment of code I use to set up and parse the XML parse

//....
      SAXParserFactory spf = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
      //spf.setNamespaceAware(true);

      SAXParser saxParser = spf.newSAXParser();
      XMLReader parser = saxParser.getXMLReader();

      urlConnection = url.openConnection();

      in = urlConnection.getInputStream();
      ins = new InputSource( in );

      // create a handler
      Handler handler = new Handler();
      handler.setBVSessionData( bvdata );

      // assign the handler to the parser
      parser.setContentHandler(handler);

      parser.parse( ins ); // SAXException is thrown here...what gives??
//...

In addition, I'm able to read the XML file fine if I point the URL to the XML file locally on my PC, however when the XML doc is served by a web server over HTTP, then read by my app, the SAXException is thrown. Any insight or examples is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.