Re: [xml-dev] How to open XML file that reference entity resolver(DTD)

[Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>]

On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 13:12 -0400, Mike Sokolov wrote:
> Another option if you don't care about DTD features like entities is to 
> write a URI resolver that simply returns an empty document (Source?) for 
> everything, or maybe everything ending '.dtd'.  Based on my research in 
> various mailing lists, this seems to be the way to use standard XML 
> tools while completely disabling DTD processing.  It'll only be useful 
> in special circumstances, though.

It also does not disable processing of an internal subset,

<!DOCTYPE shop [
  <!ENTITY name "My Happy Shop">
]>

<shop>..... &name;....</shop>


Liam

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