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Re: Stopping Saxon searching for an external DTD
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- Subject: Re: [xsl] Stopping Saxon searching for an external DTD
- From: jim smith <jim at xoo dot co dot uk>
- Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 22:03:55 +0000
- References: <200102122127.f1CLRtW04187@skew.org>
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>jim smith wrote:
>> <!DOCTYPE moreovernews SYSTEM
>> "http://p.moreover.com/xml_dtds/moreovernews.dtd">
>>
>> fails when I'm offline, but not when I'm online.
>>
>> I'm not actually clear what's going on here. Is Saxon actually
>> attempting to grab the DTD or is Java having a problem because it
>> thinks the URL should be resolved before proceeding? (In which case,
>> why doesn't it crash like a normal Java app on a Mac...)
>>
>> As I'm confident that Moreover files are valid, and my XSL doesn't
>> care, is there any way to turn this feature off?
>
>DTDs are used for more than just validation. You'll have to get rid of the
><!DOCTYPE> altogether. If there is such a declaration, it's going to be
>examined for an internal and external DTD subset, so that the XML parser
>can determine default attribute values, resolve entity references, and, if
>it is a validating parser, do schema validation.
Yes, it makes parsing lightweight XML-with-trivial-DTD tricky
offline, but that's a rare occurence. I may be the only person the
list who needs this functionality ;-)
My best bet is to s/// the DOCTYPE string out when I grab it with Perl/LWP.
>I believe that in the event that the DTD is external, the parser has the
>option of ignoring it, but I would bet that the parser you're using does
>not fall back when the URI resolver coughs up an exception. You might
>check the docs for your XML parser to see if it gives you a way to turn
>off resolution of external entities, or perhaps you can override the
>resolver with one of your own.. (sorry if I'm not being very helpful..
>I've not tried to do this myself)
Indeed it doesn't.
j
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