Re: Disabling DTD Validation Cont.

[Rob Lugt <roblugt@elcel.com>]

There is an optional feature in sax that allows you to prevent all external
parameter entities (including the DTD) from being processed:-
http://xml.org/sax/features/external-parameter-entities

However, I'm not sure if any of the parsers you mention support this
feature.

Regards
Rob Lugt
ElCel Technology

----- Original Message -----
From: "Scerri, Antony (ELSLON)" <antony.scerri@biomednet.com>
To: <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 9:03 PM
Subject: RE: Disabling DTD Validation Cont.


> I understand that, but assuming I didnt realy care about entities and
wished
> them to be left alone is this possible. Say for example i wish to walk a
DOM
> tree and extract a particular subtree of the document and store that.
>
> Tony
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Kline [mailto:bkline@rksystems.com]
> Sent: 30 January 2001 21:24
> To: Scerri, Antony (ELSLON)
> Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: Re: Disabling DTD Validation Cont.
>
>
> Validation isn't the only thing a parser uses a DTD for.  That's how it
> resolves entity references as well.  If you associate an XML document
> with a DTD it's reasonable for the parser to go looking for it.
>
> On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Scerri, Antony (ELSLON) wrote:
>
> > When using MSXML I have tried using the validateOnParse method and
setting
> > this to false and it still appear to try and locate the DTD resource.
> >
> > When using the org.apache.xerces.parsers.DOMParser I have tried using
the
> > setFeature to set "http://xml.org/sax/features/validation" to false and
> this
> > still wants the DTd resource.
> >
> > Have I dont something wrong or does this not do what I think it is
> supposed
> > to?
> >
> > Tony
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Scerri, Antony (ELSLON) [mailto:antony.scerri@biomednet.com]
> > Sent: 30 January 2001 19:39
> > To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> > Subject: Disabling DTD Validation
> >
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I woiuld like to disable DTD validation, including checking whether the
> DTD
> > exists as well as validation against a DTD. Can someone please tell me
the
> > easiest way of doing this using either Microsofts MSXML IXMLDOMDocument2
> > Interface (and MSXML3 final release implementation), or with Apaches
> > XALAN/XERCES DOMParser.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Tony
> >
> >
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