Re: [xml] Path problem while parsing DTD

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 10:34:46AM +1100, Purnima wrote:
> Hi,
> I am getting following error while parsing DTD with 'xmllint'. The
> same error appears when I am using the API 'xmlParseDTD()'
>
>     warning: failed to load external entity "(null)"
>
> I used xmllint as follows
>
>     xmllint  --dtdvalid  E:\Projects\xml\fdt.dtd  E:\Projects\xml\test.xml
>
> The URL path for DTD is very much correct and


  No, because "E:\Projects\xml\fdt.dtd" is NOT an URL


> 'xmllint' is able to identify the URL for test.xml, but failed to identify the URL
> for fdt.dtd file. 
> Even if I give relative path parsing of DTD fails.
> Can somebody help me?

  I suggest you read about what an URL really is
     http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2396.html

and use a file:///... based URL.

Daniel

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