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RE: DTD validation without a DOCTYPE

• To: "'Michael Brennan'" <Michael_Brennan@A...>,"'Caro, Samuel'" <Samuel.Caro@U...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: DTD validation without a DOCTYPE
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 09:56:46 -0000
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• In-reply-to: <D7155AD41ECFD511AF4A00B0D0202CB51DFD37@MAILHOST>
• Reply-to: <michael.h.kay@n...>

> However, I think the new Xerces 2 can do DTD validation on a
> stream of SAX
> events. I haven't investigated this in depth, but you can try
> starting with
> a faq they have
> (http://xml.apache.org/xerces2-j/faq-pcfp.html) and then
> poke around a bit deeper and see if they support this. If
> this works, you
> can just insert a SAX filter in the pipeline before the DTD
> validator, and
> add your own DOCTYPE declaration to the event stream for any
> doc that does
> not contain one.

I think there is also a validator implemented as a SAX filter as part of
David Brownell's AElfred2.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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