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Re: External subset processing by browsers

• From: Michael Glavassevich <mrglavas@c...>
• To: "Andrew Welch" <andrew.j.welch@g...>
• Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 10:22:58 -0500

"Andrew Welch" <andrew.j.welch@g...> wrote on 12/08/2008 09:59:34 AM:

> >> I have a similar issue, for example there are some RSS feeds which
> >> contain entity references but no doctype:
> >>
> >> <foo>foo &euro; bar</foo>
> >>
> >
> > Similar but not the same. Since there is no DOCTYPE or external DTD subset,
> > there is no possibility that these entities could be resolved. Consequently
> > such a document is unambiguously malformed.
>
> That's understandable, it's a pity that's decided before we get chance
> to fool the parser into thinking otherwise...

With SAX you can insert an external DTD subset [1] into the document programmatically. Just register an instance of EntityResolver2 and return something from getExternalSubset().

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[1] http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/javadocs/api/org/xml/sax/ext/EntityResolver2.html#getExternalSubset(java.lang.String,%20java.lang.String)

Michael Glavassevich
XML Parser Development
IBM Toronto Lab
E-mail: mrglavas@c...
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  • Re: External subset processing by browsers
    • From: "Andrew Welch" <andrew.j.welch@g...>