Re: [xml-dev] XML external entity references

[Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@gmail.com>]

> I was actually trying to use the catalog file, by defaulting to a DTD
> that defines the entity.
>
> my goal is to successfully parse the file:
>
> <x>
>  &message;
> </x>

Hi Mukul,

As far as I know, that will always fail... it fails at the lowest
level in the parser, before you get chance to handle it.

I had a similar problem when processing rss feeds - some contained
entities but no doctype - and I tried and failed to process it using
xml tools (eg supplying an entity resolver to the parser).

In the end I resorted to string processing the feed before parsing
it.....   (although I guess you can argue that non-well-formed input
means a non-xml solution)

(rss made me smile by the way - 101 different ways of wedging html into xml)



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