• To: "Hoebeke, Bram" <Bram.Hoebeke@n...>,XML Dev <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: Re: java.lang.InstantiationException
• From: "Emmanuil Batsis (Manos)" <mbatsis@n...>
• Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 11:17:58 +0300
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Hoebeke, Bram wrote:
> since I wanted the simplest SAX parser
> for parsing non well formed XML,

Others may argue, but a sax parser for non well formed XML is a very 
far-out-dude definition for source code. Too far-out!


> I wrote a tokenizer & a parser class that throws the basic events (start
> element, characters, ...aso),
> but when instantiating the class,
> I get the following error.
> 
> java.lang.InstantiationException 	at
> org.xml.sax.helpers.XMLReaderFactory.createXMLReader
> 
> The class is abstract and has an empty constructor.

Check out [1]. You cannot instantiate an abstract class!

[1] 
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/InstantiationException.html

> What am I doing wrong?


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