Hi there,

I'm using, for the first time, the JDK1.5 Xpath API. I need to find
elements in a Hibernate-generated .hbm.xml file. These files come with
a <!DOCTYPE header mentioning a remote URL. The Xpath parser fetches
the URL from the hibernate.sourceforge site. So far so good.

However, if I unplug the network, I get (after a *long* timeout) a
java.net.SocketException. I looked around and I found out that I have
to define a class implementing EntityResolver to change the default
behaviour (i.e., fetch the DTD over the net) and obtain an InputSource
from it. Something along the lines of:

public class UriTransform implements EntityResolver {
 public InputSource resolveEntity(String publicId, String systemId) {
   return new InputSource(new StringReader(""));
 }
}

Now my problem is: How do I do it? Neither in javax.xml.xpath.XPath nor
in javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactory did I find an appropriate place nor did
I find a method to gain access to the underlying SAX parser. Here's my
code:

XPath xpath = XPathFactory.newInstance().newXPath();
final String expression = "//property";
final String completePath = ... //file path
InputSource inputSource = new InputSource(completePath);
DTMNodeList nodes = (DTMNodeList) xpath.evaluate(expression,
 inputSource, XPathConstants.NODESET);

Any ideas?
TIA
andy