RE: [xml-dev] URLs of DTDs question

["Michael Kay" <mike@saxonica.com>]

> 
> when specifying a DTD for an XML document on my web server, 
> the only way
> that I got it to work is using an absolute URL:
> 
> <!DOCTYPE foo SYSTEM "/www/myserver/pathToDTD/myDTD.dtd">

That isn't an absolute URL! An absolute URL always has a scheme name, e.g.
http: or file:.
> 
> Should DTDs work with relative URLS? 

Yes.

> What could be the reason 
> that mine don't seem to do that? 

No idea. You haven't told us what you did, so we can't tell what you did
wrong.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/