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SAX parsers will report some kind of fatal exception,
likely an IOException, unless you have one (say, AElfred2)
that supports disabling the external-parameter-entities
feature (setting the flag value to "false").
If the processor isn't handling external PEs then the XML
spec says you'll get a report that it skipped those entities.
And maybe a validity error, but that bit in the spec is
excessively short of crystalline clarity ... :)
- Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Heikki Toivonen" <heikki@netscape.com>
To: <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 10:21 AM
Subject: [xml-dev] Non-validating parser, non-existing DTD, undefined entity and error reporting
> What should a non-validating XML parser report in the below cases:
>
> 1)
>
> <?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
> <!DOCTYPE test SYSTEM "notexist.dtd">
> <test>a&foo;b</test>
>
>
> 2)
>
> <?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?>
> <!DOCTYPE test SYSTEM "notexist.dtd">
> <test>a&foo;b</test>
>
>
> Should it report that the notexist.dtd could not be loaded, or that
> entity foo is undefined, or totally ignore any errors?
>
> --
> Heikki Toivonen
>
>
>
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