xml-dev - Re: validating parser that understands PUBLIC id's

["Sebastian Rahtz" <sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>]

Mark Doyle writes:
 > <!DOCTYPE apsmeta PUBLIC "-//The American Physical Society//DTD APS Metadata  
 > 1.0//EN" "http://publish.aps.org/dtd/apsmeta/apsmeta.dtd">
 > 
 > The URL isn't active (is it a requirement to have it active when used as a  
 > SYSTEM id?) - I want these files to be valid and not have to specify a  

why not make it 

 SYSTEM "http://publish.aps.org/dtd/apsmeta/apsmeta.dtd"

and validate it like that? plenty of parsers can follow URLs. I use
Richard Tobin's "rxp", which does the job just fine.

Sebastian


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