Re: [xml] passing the FPI to the DTD validator

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 09:53:07PM +0200, Tobias Reif wrote:
> Daniel Veillard wrote:
>
>
> >   Use the canonical URL instead of a path in your filesystem for the
> > DTD this will work with the dtdvalid option assuming your catalogs
> > are properly constructed to remap the canonical URL to your local
> > installation path.
>
>
> It doesn't work. I could change my catalog and make it work, but I would 
> be happy if I could simply pass the FPI to xmllint. My catalog maps FPIs 
> to local DTDs, I don't really want to be required to add mappings for 
> all the canonical DTD URLs.

  This is so incredibly fragile !

> I know that you don't want to add many more options to xmllint, but the 
> functionality behind the suggested feature is already implemented; the 
> option could be added easily.

  Not arguing about that. I commited this in CVS, but I really don't suggest
people rely on FPI for XML processing. URL are mandatory for XML, that's
the only reliable way to address XML resources.

Daniel

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