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I've tried different "input.xml" and "tagMap.xml" files.
Tweaking around with the structure and tags... But i keep getting the "MalformedURLException"

Any suggestions, other than solving this with iText, are welcome. As long as the input files are always a XML with content (input.xml) and another XML with the tagMap (tagMap.xml).

This problem comes from the need to upgrade our systems. Weblogic server 8 to 12c, Java 1.4 to 1.8... There's no intent to change any functionality on the application, the code/libraries just seem to be incompatible.

(Note: I've reduced all the java code + content/structure of the "input.xml" and "tagMap.xml" for demonstration purposes.)

Any ideas?

    package sandbox;



    import java.io.File;

    import java.io.FileNotFoundException;

    import java.io.FileOutputStream;

    import com.lowagie.text.*;

    import com.lowagie.text.pdf.*;

    import com.lowagie.text.xml.XmlParser;



    public class Main {



    public static void main(String args) {

            String testPath = "D:"+File.separator+"JavaTest";

    // step 1: creation of a document-object

          Document document = new Document(PageSize.A4, 80, 50, 30, 65);

    // step 2: we create a writer that listens to the document

     try {

            PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream

                      (testPath+File.separator+"outPut.pdf"));

    // step 3: we parse the document

          XmlParser.parse(document, testPath+ File.separator+ "input.xml"

                  , testPath+ File.separator+ "tagMap.xml");

        } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {

            e.printStackTrace();

        } catch (DocumentException e) {

            e.printStackTrace();

        }



        }



    }

Stack trace:

Exception in thread "main" ExceptionConverter: java.net.MalformedURLException

at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:627)

at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:490)

at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:439)

at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLEntityManager.setupCurrentEntity(XMLEntityManager.java:620)

at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLVersionDetector.determineDocVersion(XMLVersionDetector.java:148)

at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:805)

at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:770)

at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:141)

at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1213)

at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(SAXParserImpl.java:643)

at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl.parse(SAXParserImpl.java:327)

at com.lowagie.text.xml.TagMap.init(Unknown Source)

at com.lowagie.text.xml.TagMap.<init>(Unknown Source)

at com.lowagie.text.xml.XmlParser.go(Unknown Source)

at com.lowagie.text.xml.XmlParser.parse(Unknown Source)

at sandbox.Main.main(Main.java:32)

Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException

at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:532)

... 15 more

input.xml content:

<?xml version="1.0"?>



<GREETING>

    <TEXT>Hello World PDF Test</TEXT>

</GREETING>

tagMap.xml content:

<tagmap>

<tag name="iText" alias="GREETING" />

<tag name="paragraph" alias="TEXT">

    <attribute name="leading" value="14" />

    <attribute name="size" value="10" />

    <attribute name="style" value="italic" />

    <attribute name="align" value="left" />

</tag>

</tagmap>

Using:
com.lowagie.text.xml.XmlParser

public static void parse(DocListener document,

                     java.lang.String file,

                     java.lang.String tagmap)

Parses a given file that validates with the iText DTD and writes the content to a document.

Parameters:

    document - The document that will listen to the parser

    file - The path to a file with the content

    tagmap - A user defined tagmap

This isn't an actual solution for my question but if anyone comes here looking for one I state what I did:
What I did was to remove all usage of iText libs and replace the PDF processing with apache FOP 2.3
The implementation was straight forward. I had to generate the .xsl (template) and .xml (containing the input variables).