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Re: External subset processing by browsers

• From: "Andrew Welch" <andrew.j.welch@g...>
• To: "George Cristian Bina" <george@o...>
• Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 14:39:06 +0000

Hi George,

> One trick that you can use is to take advantage of the fact that a parser in
> non validating mode is not required to actually read the DTD. You need to
> have a DTD specified though in the XML file. You will get the entity
> notification on the ContentHandler skippedEntity callback.

Ahh ok thanks - almost there :) a couple of issues though:

- the root element can be rss, rdf or atom...

- the ContentHandler is already a TransformerHandler  (not sure that's
really an issue yet - but thought it's worth mentioning...)

It's shame that a DTD has to be specified, if it didn't (and the calls
were made to start/endEntity) it would be fine.  If I need to inspect
the content for the root element name then I may as well stick the
with the regex.

Also, if I'm adding a DTD, I may as well just point to the html 4 entites?

cheers
andrew

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