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RE: <DOCTYPE> definition in XML docs

• To: "john Mani" <john@s...>, <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: <DOCTYPE> definition in XML docs
• From: "Mike Fitzgerald" <mikefz@w...>
• Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 13:32:09 -0700
• Importance: Normal
• In-reply-to: <NDBBKJGMEKBBCEFGCEOKGEFKDAAA.john@s...>

If I understand your problem correctly,
http://doctypechanger.sourceforge.net/ could help. From the web page:
"DoctypeChanger is a Java class that lets you add, modify or remove a
DOCTYPE declaration from a byte stream as it is fed into an XML parser."

Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: john Mani [mailto:john@s...]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 12:46 PM
> To: xml-dev@l...
> Subject:  <DOCTYPE> definition in XML docs
>
>
> We have an application that exchanges XML with a customer's
> application, running at their site. The XML DTD is specified
> by the customer. These XMLs are used more as a RPC type
> command, rather than as documents that may be archived and
> reused later.
>
> The customer's XML processor demands that the XML documents
> we send have a <DOCTYPE .. > declaration, that points to a URL
> hosted by us.
>
> I would prefer that I do NOT include any <DOCTYPE > declarations,
> but just have the XML's be declared 'Standalone'. The receiver's
> parser afterall has the DTD to insure the validity of the document.
> And it certainly doesn't make much sense for me to be hosting
> the DTD URL, rather than the DTD owner (me customer, in this case).
>
> Anyways, what's a design pattern in such situations ?
>
> thanx
> -john
>
>
>
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