Android File System : How to Read a local file

Hello everybody!
(hi dr. nick!)

I have been able to successfully parse a XML file from an internet URL using SAX parser. Now im looking to change my code to be able to parse a local XML file. Below is a part of the code I am using.

My problem could be due to syntax or it could be do to a lack of understanding on how the Android file system works.

// ----------------------------------

FileInputStream fstream = null;
try {
fstream = new FileInputStream(filename);

/* Get a SAXParser from the SAXPArserFactory. */
SAXParserFactory spf = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
SAXParser sp = spf.newSAXParser();
/* Get the XMLReader of the SAXParser we created. */
XMLReader xr = sp.getXMLReader();
/* Create a new ContentHandler and apply it to the XML-Reader*/
ExampleHandler myExampleHandler = new ExampleHandler();
xr.setContentHandler(myExampleHandler);
xr.parse(new InputSource(fstream));
// more code......
}catch (Exception FileNotFoundException){
Log.v(logCat, "File not found exception!:" + filename);
}

// ------------------------------------------

A file not found exception is getting thrown so im thinking that the problematic code is this line:

fstream = new FileInputStream(filename);
// filename = "/res/xml/sample.xml"

Does that file path make sense to use for accessing a file local to this application? ie. / is where my project is stored, /src is where the source files are located, /res/layout is where the layout files are. I created the /res/xml directory

Thats a long post. Hopefully i made my problem clear.

Thanks, daniel