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Re: parsing a DTD without having the entities resolved.

• To: Koen De Maesschalck <koen_demaesschalck@b...>
• Subject: Re: parsing a DTD without having the entities resolved.
• From: Daniel Veillard <veillard@r...>
• Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 07:43:21 -0400
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <OFE70AF0DE.FB092919-ONC1256BE4.003B28BC@b...>; from koen_demaesschalck@b... on Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 12:46:53PM +0200
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On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 12:46:53PM +0200, Koen De Maesschalck wrote:
> Hi,

  Hi Koen,

> I am parsing a (complex) DTD using libXML2 and using the function calls
> that Daniel Veillard showed here previously:

  here, really ? Damn, sorry for the pollution, I suggest to use 
   xml@g... 
   http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml
instead, since this is very specific to libxml2.

> xmlDTDPtr dtd;
> dtd= parseDTD( NULL, "filename.dtd");
> 
> after that I scroll throug the children list and I am interpreting the
> elements using
> 
> pElement = xmlGetDTDElementDesc( dtd, child->name);
> 
> This all works fine, however I would like to be able to browse the DTD
> before the entities are resolved.  Mainly, my goal is to see which entities
> are used in element content (or elsewhere in the dtd - such as in ATTLIST
> declarations).
> 
> I tried to issue a call to
> 
> xmlSubstituteEntitiesDefault(0);
> 
> before I call parseDTD(), but that doesn't seem to make any difference.
> What am I doing wrong?

  In a nutshell, this is not possible with libxml, basically the use of
parameter entities in DTDs doesn't have to follow structured usage patterns
and representing them with a tree representation seems extremely hard if
not impossible. 

  I can give you more info on the libxml list if you want.

Daniel

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