Re: [xml] external DTD validation of large XML's

[Liam R E Quin <liam holoweb net>]

[...]
> > If the above are correct, what do you suggest to people who want to use libxml2 to validate large XMLs 
> > with external DTD files?  Re-write the input XML file?
>
> Pretty much yeah. It's not so bad, just a tiny DOCTYPE refering to the DTD.

In many cases you don't even need that. Write a shell XML file,

<!DOCTYPE wrapper SYSTEM "the-dtd-file.dtd" [
  <!ELEMENT wrapper the-real-root-element>
  <!ENTITY the-real-document SYSTEM "bigfile.xml">
]>
<wrapper>&the-real-document;</wrapper>

and then validate that wrapper file.

This assumes the large file has a root (outermost) element of
   <the-real-root-element>.....</the-real-root-element>

Liam

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