couldn't Open assets/sample.xml

I m getting the error "couldn't Open assets/sample.xml"

here is my code:

try {
            // creates and returns new instance开发者_运维技巧 of SAX-implementation:
            SAXParserFactory factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();

            // create SAX-parser...
            SAXParser parser = factory.newSAXParser();
            // .. define our handler:
            SaxHandler handler = new SaxHandler();

            // and parse:
            parser.parse("assets/sample.xml", handler);

        } 

Assets are not files. You need to call Context.getAssets().open("sample.xml") and pass the resulting InputStream into parse().

Try calling parser.parse("file:///android_asset/sample.xml", handler);