https://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/: Xerces2 is the next generation of high performance, fully compliant XML parsers in the Apache Xerces family. This new version of Xerces introduces the Xerces Native Interface (XNI), a complete framework for building parser components and configurations that is extremely modular and easy to program. The Apache Xerces2 parser is the reference implementation of XNI but other parser components, configurations, and parsers can be written using the Xerces Native Interface. For complete design and implementation documents, refer to the XNI Manual. Xerces2 is a fully conforming XML Schema 1.0 processor. A partial experimental implementation of the XML Schema 1.1 Structures and Datatypes Working Drafts (December 2009) and an experimental implementation of the XML Schema Definition Language (XSD): Component Designators (SCD) Candidate Recommendation (January 2010) are provided for evaluation. For more information, refer to the XML Schema page. Xerces2 also provides a complete implementation of the Document Object Model Level 3 Core and Load/Save W3C Recommendations and provides a complete implementation of the XML Inclusions (XInclude) W3C Recommendation. It also provides support for OASIS XML Catalogs v1.1. Xerces2 is able to parse documents written according to the XML 1.1 Recommendation, except that it does not yet provide an option to enable normalization checking as described in section 2.13 of this specification. It also handles namespaces according to the XML Namespaces 1.1 Recommendation, and will correctly serialize XML 1.1 documents if the DOM level 3 load/save APIs are in use. 
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package org.apache.xerces.xni.parser;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.xerces.xni.XMLResourceIdentifier;
import org.apache.xerces.xni.XNIException;


This interface is used to resolve external parsed entities. The
application can register an object that implements this interface
with the parser configuration in order to intercept entities and
resolve them explicitly. If the registered entity resolver cannot
resolve the entity, it should return null so that the
parser will try to resolve the entity using a default mechanism.

Author:Andy Clark, IBM
See Also:
  • XMLParserConfiguration
Version:$Id: XMLEntityResolver.java 699892 2008-09-28 21:08:27Z mrglavas $
/**
 * This interface is used to resolve external parsed entities. The
 * application can register an object that implements this interface
 * with the parser configuration in order to intercept entities and
 * resolve them explicitly. If the registered entity resolver cannot
 * resolve the entity, it should return <code>null</code> so that the
 * parser will try to resolve the entity using a default mechanism.
 *
 * @see XMLParserConfiguration
 *
 * @author Andy Clark, IBM
 *
 * @version $Id: XMLEntityResolver.java 699892 2008-09-28 21:08:27Z mrglavas $
 */
public interface XMLEntityResolver {

    //
    // XMLEntityResolver methods
    //

    
Resolves an external parsed entity. If the entity cannot be
resolved, this method should return null.

Params:
  • resourceIdentifier – location of the XML resource to resolve
Throws:
  • XNIException – Thrown on general error.
  • IOException –  Thrown if resolved entity stream cannot be
                     opened or some other i/o error occurs.
See Also:
/**
     * Resolves an external parsed entity. If the entity cannot be
     * resolved, this method should return null.
     *
     * @param resourceIdentifier location of the XML resource to resolve
     *
     * @throws XNIException Thrown on general error.
     * @throws IOException  Thrown if resolved entity stream cannot be
     *                      opened or some other i/o error occurs.
     * @see org.apache.xerces.xni.XMLResourceIdentifier
     */
    public XMLInputSource resolveEntity(XMLResourceIdentifier resourceIdentifier)
        throws XNIException, IOException;

} // interface XMLEntityResolver