xml-dev - DTD validation for HTML dtd

[Michele Lee <mclee@oblix.com>]

Hi,

I have prepared a DTD and want to validate XML documents (using Apache's
xerces parser).  The problem is, my XML document can embed HTML tags.
Therefore, I thought I just need to include the HTML entity referencing
the (X)HTML dtd.  However, the validation fails with the following error
message:

============================
[Fatal Error] xhtml1-transitional.dtd:620:30: The value of attribute
"charset" m
ust begin with either a single or double quote character.
Stopping after fatal error: The value of attribute "charset" must begin
with eit
her a single or double quote character.
        at
org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLParser.reportError(XMLParser.java:1273
)
========================

The XML document:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE test SYSTEM "test.dtd">
<test>
hello<BR/>
</test>

========================

The DTD document:
<!ENTITY % HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
%HTML;

<!ELEMENT test ( ANY )>

==========================

Is this a problem with the parser or the DTD that I'm using for HTML
tags?  How can I get around this problem?

thanks,

--Michele





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