Re: [xml] validation automatically turned on?

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 04:53:21AM +0100, Stefano Debenedetti wrote:
> Hi, I am experiencing a strange behavior using libxml2.5.1 python bindings on a debian woody: I have an 
> application that parses many xml files and one of them is an xhtml file referencing the dtd on the w3c 
> site. It seems that when parsing that file validation is turned on even if i just use a libxml2.parseFile 
> call...
> I also tried to create a parser context and call validate(0) on it but validation happens anyway...
> I tried to do the same thing using the interactive python shell but I cannot replicate the behavior: the 
> same code does not do validation, as expected.
> Are there any circumstances under which validation is automatically turned on?

  Hum, not that I can think of. The flag is inherited from a global
variable when creating the context. What make you believe it's validating
just for that file ? Error messages ?

Daniel

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