HI,
I get the follwoing error when reading the hibernate config file :

org.dom4j.DocumentException: Validation not supported for XMLReader: com.bluecast.xml.Piccolo@fb6c5f Nested exception: validation is not supported Nested exception: Validation not supported for XMLReader: com.bluecast.xml.Piccolo@fb6c5f Nested exception: validation is not supported
org.dom4j.io.SAXReader.read(SAXReader.java:358)
org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.doConfigure(Configuration.java:1481)
org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.configure(Configuration.java:1425)
org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.configure(Configuration.java:1411)

I'm using MySql database. i have tried putting the xml file both in the classpath, as well as specifying the path in Configure.configure(" " ) method.

here is my cfg file:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-configuration PUBLIC "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Configuration DTD 3.0//EN" "http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd">
<hibernate-configuration>
<session-factory>
<property name="connection.driver_class">com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</property>
<property name="connection.url">jdbc:mysql://localhost/tulipsDB</property>
<property name="connection.username">tulips</property>
<property name="connection.password">tulips</property>
<property name="show_sql">true</property>
<property name="dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect</property>
<property name="hbm2ddl.auto">update</property>
<mapping resource="com/hp/tulips/beans/utils/hibernate/TestCases.hbm.xml"/>
<mapping resource="com/hp/tulips/beans/utils/hibernate/TestScenario.hbm.xml"/>
</session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>

could there be anything significant that i could be missing? jar file may be ? i have tried everything possible.. any help here would be much appreciated .

thanks in advance
Donald