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setValidating(false) will not prevent DTD validation, but you can set http://apache.org/xml/features/nonvalidating/load-external-dtd feature to false. I think is a Xerces-only feature, though, it may not be recognized by other parsers. DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); factory.setValidating(false); //factory.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/external-parameter-entities", false); // it doesn't work factory.setFeature("http://apache.org/xml/features/nonvalidating/load-external-dtd", false); DocumentBuilder parser = factory.newDocumentBuilder(); Document doc = parser.parse(getClass().getResourceAsStream("ennote.xml")); Typical DTD not found exception stacktrace java.io.FileNotFoundException: /Users/ecerulm/NetBeansProjects/en4j/NBPlatformApp/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd (No such file or directory) at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method) at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:106) at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:66) at sun.net.www.protocol.file.FileURLConnection.connect(FileURLConnection.java:70) at sun.net.www.protocol.file.FileURLConnection.getInputStream(FileURLConnection.java:161) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLEntityManager.setupCurrentEntity(XMLEntityManager.java:653) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLEntityManager.startEntity(XMLEntityManager.java:1315) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLEntityManager.startDTDEntity(XMLEntityManager.java:1282) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDTDScannerImpl.setInputSource(XMLDTDScannerImpl.java:283) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$DTDDriver.dispatch(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:1193) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$DTDDriver.next(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:1090) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$PrologDriver.next(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:1003) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:648) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:510) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:807) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:737) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:107) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.DOMParser.parse(DOMParser.java:225) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(DocumentBuilderImpl.java:283) at javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder.parse(DocumentBuilder.java:124) at com.rubenlaguna.en4j.NoteContentViewModule.NoteContentViewTopComponent.resultChanged(NoteContentViewTopComponent.java:141) ... ... http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/features.html#nonvalidating.load-external-dtd http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/features.html#external-parameter-entities http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=284209&forumID=34 http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200101/msg01055.html

Are you getting a ClassCastException in a Netbeans Platform Application, when you are you sure that the class can be casted? Then check http://wiki.netbeans.org/PlainView.jsp?page=DevFaqModuleCCE. This is most likely the result of the the classes being loaded by different classloaders. So JAXBContextImpl cannot be cast to JAXBContext because that JAXBContext is from Classloader “A” and JAXBContextImpl can only be cast to JAXBContext from Classloader “B”. SEVERE [global] java.lang.ClassCastException: com.sun.xml.bind.v2.runtime.JAXBContextImpl cannot be cast to javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext at javax.xml.bind.ContextFinder.newInstance(ContextFinder.java:145) at javax.xml.bind.ContextFinder.find(ContextFinder.java:277) at javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext.newInstance(JAXBContext.java:372) at javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext.newInstance(JAXBContext.java:337) at javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext.newInstance(JAXBContext.java:244) at com.rubenlaguna.en4j.mainmodule.ImportEvernoteFile.actionPerformed(ImportEvernoteFile.java:65) at org.openide.awt.AlwaysEnabledAction.actionPerformed(AlwaysEnabledAction.java:115) at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:2028) at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:2351) at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(DefaultButtonModel.java:387) at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(DefaultButtonModel.java:242) at javax.swing.AbstractButton.doClick(AbstractButton.java:389) at com.apple.laf.ScreenMenuItem.actionPerformed(ScreenMenuItem.java:95) at java.awt.MenuItem.processActionEvent(MenuItem.java:627) at java.awt.MenuItem.processEvent(MenuItem.java:586) at java.awt.MenuComponent.dispatchEventImpl(MenuComponent.java:317) at java.awt.MenuComponent.dispatchEvent(MenuComponent.java:305) at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:638) at org.netbeans.core.TimableEventQueue.dispatchEvent(TimableEventQueue.java:104) [catch] at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:296) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:211) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:201) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:196) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:188) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:122) BUILD SUCCESSFUL (total time: 28 minutes 5 seconds) So this could happen for example if you have both woodstox in a Netbeans Library Wrapper module and you make you application dependent on ide11 ⇒ JAXB 2.1 Library . ...

Java 6 includes STaX , when I tried to parse a Evernote backup file with it, I got a OOME error. java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.XMLStringBuffer.append(XMLStringBuffer.java:205) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.refresh(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:1520) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLEntityScanner.invokeListeners(XMLEntityScanner.java:2070) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLEntityScanner.peekChar(XMLEntityScanner.java:486) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDriver.next(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:2679) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:648) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.java:140) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLStreamReaderImpl.next(XMLStreamReaderImpl.java:548) at Googling a bit I found a bug report 6536111. It says that this should be fixed in 1.6.0_14. But I tried Sun 1.6.0_16 and no luck. I got the exact same thing. ...