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Project X / Crimson (Project X released under the Apache license) has a
default Resolver which has a registerCatalogEntry (<string>, <string>)
which sort of solves this problem. You still need a copy of the DTD
locally. The resolver can be used in the following fashion -
Resolver resolver = new Resolver ();
resolver.registerCatalogEntry ("-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN",
"file:///c:/foo/bar/xhtml1-strict.dtd);
parser.setEntityResolver (resolver);
While parsing the resolver will first try to locate the local copy of the
DTD. If it doesn't find it, it will look at the SYSTEM id.
Hope this helps.
- Rajiv
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:wq
On Sun, 2 Apr 2000, Peter Murray-Rust wrote:
> <Note>This message is serious<smiley/></Note>
>
> I have been preparing a large amount of XHTML (for our VirtualXML activity)
> and using Dave Raggett's excellent tidy program (with option -asxml) to
> produce XHTML files of the sort:
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
> <head>
> <title>Test page</title>
> </head>
> <body>
> <p>A test</p>
> </body>
> </html>
>
> These files work fine as HTML, and are conforming XML 1.0, but when I try
> to parse them on my laptop using either AElfred or Xerces I get:
>
> java.net.UnknownHostException: www.w3.org
>
> What's wrong? Ah! The parser is trying to resolve the URL for the DTD and
> since I'm offline (connections cost money over here) it can't. So the file
> I have created can only be processed as XML if:
> (a) I am connected online
> (b) the W3C maintain *** for all time *** a means of dereferencing either
> the FPI or the URL
>
> I can't believe this is what the community wants. It fooled me, and I've
> been working with XML for some time.
>
> I still believe that undefined parser behaviour is going to be a major
> deterrent to may people who want to take up XML. I have posted on this
> before. I am going to keep on about it. The most common reaction I seem to
> have so far is "Well that's how XML behaves - it's *your* problem to decide
> how to process XML". This isn't good enough. In the current case I simply
> want to switch off the parser's attempt to resolve the DTD. I would
> appreciate something like:
>
> "Parser failed to resolve external SYSTEM identifier in DOCTYPE:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd
> To disable DTD look-up use -nosysid option"
>
> So, for about the third time (and it took 3 times to get SAX1.0 off the
> ground, what are we going to do about specifying parser behaviour? I have
> shown in public how the failure to process external entities breaks systems.
>
> Until we resolve this question (and probably several others), XML 1.0 is
> broken as an interoperable "standard"
>
> P.
>
> [No criticism is aimed at Dave Raggett, who has written a splendid tool, or
> the W3C who actually have a real DTD mounted at the URL mentioned. Nor to
> the authors of the parsers who have done their best to provide a default
> behaviour, and in the absence of any guidance have required their parsers
> to access an external DTD (very reasonably).
>
>
>
>
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