Re: Problem with extracting text from svg file

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 08:15:00AM +0100, Michael Kay wrote:
> Actually, it shouldn't even be necessary to use catalogs. Saxon 9.4 has  
> built in copies of commonly-used W3C DTDs including this one, and if you  
> use default parsing options for your source file then Saxon should  
> automatically direct the XML parser to these local copies.
>
> If you are using 9.4 and this isn't happening, it would be useful to  
> know exactly how you invoke the transformation.
>
> The error message
>
> java.net.UnknownHostException:www.w3.org
>
> suggests to me a slightly different problem. That's not the normal failure you get when trying to retrieve DTDs from the W3C web site (the most common symptom is a long delay followed possibly by an HTTP timeout).
>
> If you're running from the command line, try the -t option which may give more clues as to what's going on.
>
I can confirm that using the 9.4HE version did indeed work as is without catalogs.

This is good to know, but i think i will also try and get it running with catalog support as i haven;t used those and think i ought to add knowing how to do that!

thanks, 


Russ