File not found exception

I am trying to implement an program that allows me to choose a file using JFileChooser, and parse the xml file using a SAX parser. I get the absolute path using: fc.getSelectedFile().getAbsolutePath(); And this gives me the right location of the file.

fileName = "\\users\udc8\a4471\My Documents\blockdiagram.xml"

However, when I try to run my parser it looks in the wrong Place.

parser.parse(fileName);

java.io.FileNotFoundException: \\users\udc8\a4471\workspace\SAX Intro\users\udc8\a4471\My Documents\blockdiagram.xml (The system cannot find the file specified)

Looking at that adress it adds the working directory. How does one change this?

That's really strange that the parse() method would change the file path it received. Can you debug the parse() method to see why it does that?

Well I Think the parse() method is preset to use the relative path and just want the file name as input. However I don't know how to change to the relative path if I have to go back a couple of folders to find the right path, and doing this no matter what's the location of the file. It all seems dumb to me not using the absolute path as a standard because Everything is so much easier going that way than the other.


The documentation I find is Oracles on XMLReader, doesn't say much.

How does the API doc describe the args to the parse() method? Are you calling it correctly?


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