RE: Problem parsing xml file with DOM using Java

["Arnold, Curt" <Curt.Arnold@hyprotech.com>]

You are passing the parser a UNC file name not an URL as Xerces
is expecting.  

If you did (only approximations),

parser.parse(new File(XMLFile).toURL());

or

parser.parse("file:///c:/pk.xml");

You should be OK.  If you are using backslashes with an XML
parser you are asking for trouble.

Questions specific to a particular implementation
are best asked on the implementations mailing list, in this
case xerces-j-user@xml.apache.org.