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• To: Heikki Toivonen <heikki@n...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: Re: Non-validating parser, non-existing DTD,undefined entity and error reporting
• From: David Brownell <david-b@p...>
• Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 10:36:49 -0800
• References: <3C51A220.6020509@n...>

SAX parsers will report some kind of fatal exception,
likely an IOException, unless you have one (say, AElfred2)
that supports disabling the external-parameter-entities
feature (setting the flag value to "false").

If the processor isn't handling external PEs then the XML
spec says you'll get a report that it skipped those entities.
And maybe a validity error, but that bit in the spec is
excessively short of crystalline clarity ... :)

- Dave


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Heikki Toivonen" <heikki@n...>
To: <xml-dev@l...>
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 10:21 AM
Subject:  Non-validating parser, non-existing DTD, undefined entity and error reporting


> What should a non-validating XML parser report in the below cases:
> 
> 1)
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
> <!DOCTYPE test SYSTEM "notexist.dtd">
> <test>a&foo;b</test>
> 
> 
> 2)
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?>
> <!DOCTYPE test SYSTEM "notexist.dtd">
> <test>a&foo;b</test>
> 
> 
> Should it report that the notexist.dtd could not be loaded, or that 
> entity foo is undefined, or totally ignore any errors?
> 
> -- 
>   Heikki Toivonen
> 
> 
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