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I am working on an android application in which I want to parse an xml file as a local resource. I use jdom to parse it, but I have a probleme, I can not open the file and I don't know why. The error is at this line :

document = builder.build(new File("res/xml/data.xml"));

The file is located into the folder res/xml of my project. I got this error:

java.io.IOException: Couldn't open file:/res/xml/data.xml
Caused by java.io.FileNotFoundException :res/xml/data.xml

I tried this:

document = builder.build(new File("data.xml"));

but it did not work. I don't know why the file is not found.

Would you have an idea?

Thanks in advance

Thank you for your suggestion. The 'Uri path' works but not the line 

document = builder.build(new File(path));

The method class File must have a type entree String. I tried this:

document = builder.build(new File(path.getPath());

but it returned null and 

document = builder.build(new File(path.toString());

I got the same error. Would you have an idea ? Thanks in advance !!

Bill the Lizard
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I believe you will need to use an URI in your file constructor that points to the data.xml file.

Try something like this:

Uri path = Uri.parse("android.resource://my.package.here/" + R.xml.data);
document = builder.build(new File(path));

This tutorial here might also be helpful: http://androidbook.blogspot.com/2009/08/referring-to-android-resources-using.html

Lasse Samson
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If this is a resource inside your application then you should use Resources methods suchas getXml(). You can get an instance of the rources class from the Context object

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InputStream is = context.getResources().openRawResource(R.raw.data);

BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));

document = builder.build(br);

Be sure to put the data.xml in the res/raw-folder.

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