Re: [xml] xmllint: validating a document that doesn't specify a DTD

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 05:03:41PM +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 14:24 +0100, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 01:33:44PM +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > > Should I be able to validate an XML document (such as a .glade file)
> > > that has no DOCTYPE line, and therefore doesn't specify a DTD?
> > >
> > > When I try it with xmllint, I get this error
> > >   validity error : Validation failed: no DTD found !
> > > even when I have specified a local DTD with --dtdvalid.
> >
> >   Works for me with the version from git head:
>
> Thanks. I was actually using 
>   xmllint --valid --dtdvalid mydtd.dtd mydoc.xml
>
> So is --dtdvalid an alternative to --valid rather than a way of using
> --valid?

  and alternative, as DTD validation as defined in the XML-1.0 spec
is --valid i.e. validating as parsing based on DOCTYPE contained in
the document, and --dtdvalid is just a different kind of validation
closely related, but certainly different, and in subtle case you may
see different results (but in general it will be the same !)

Daniel

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