xml-dev - Re: Getting the SystemID from DocType

[David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>]

"Goyal, Sanjeev" wrote:
> 
> Dave,
> 
> > > Also if I invoke getDoctype(), it return DocumentType
> > object which doesn't
> > > have enough public method to get the system id for the
> > DocType of this
> > > XmlDocument.
> >
> > I suggest you look at the source code and you'll see what's going on.
> > That's a big part of why it's provided.
> 
> I have seen the source code for it. The implementation class Doctype.java
> for (DocumentType interface) has private variables defined for systemId and
> public Ids for external dtd subsets, that's why the systemId for DTD is
> printed out (in DOCTYPE declaration) when I tried to write XML back from a
> XmlDocument object. But there is no public method to access this systemId
> (for external dtd subset) from DocumentType object, returned from
> getDoctype() API on XmlDocument class. In my application I need to know this
> systemId. If DocumentType is not the right object to get this systemId than
> how do access this systemId ? Is it possible ?

You just said it's a private variable, and you looked at the source
code ... so you must know the answer to this question already.

I suggest you talk to Sun about this feature request.  Perhaps they
will offer DOM Level 2 support, which does expose this information.

- Dave

 
> Thanks in advance,
> Sanjeev

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