Greetings folks,

this is not necessarily a JDOM question but I hope some one can help or point me in a good direction:

I'm a beginner at this stuff so sorry if these are stupid questions.

I'm trying to write A screen scraping program to run on an XML Document from within BeanShell using a SAX parser to Parse out the text in the XML.

I'm starting BeanShell like this (all windows sorry)

java.exe -Dorg.xml.sax.driver=org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser "bsh-2.0b4.jar"

(as specified in Elliot Rust Harold, Processing XML with Java, page 263)

Now I want to use a SAXParser I have Xerces installed but when I do this:

import org.xml.sax.*;

import org.xml.sax.helpers.XMLReaderFactory;

import java.io.IOException;

XMLReader parser = XMLReaderFactory.createXMLReader();

(as mentioned in the demo on page 262)

Now my understanding is that XMLReader is an interface and that org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser

is the static object being invoked here?

However I'm getting

 java.lang.ClassCastException: org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser

is this perhaps a BeanShell or windows thing? Or am I missing the point?

Help greatly appreciated.

Alan