[Fwd: Re: [xml] validation automatically turned on?]

[Stefano Debenedetti <ste webaccess mozquito com>]

sorry I hit the wrong button..
ste

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Subject: Re: [xml] validation automatically turned on?
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 18:00:27 +0100
From: Stefano Debenedetti <ste webaccess mozquito com>
To: Justin Fletcher <justin fletcher ntlworld com>
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thanks a lot, I will look at that, is there any way of doing that in python? If I manage to do that I could 
also submit a patch for the docs about it...

I still don't understand why that does not happen when I try with the interactive python shell though...

ciao
ste

Justin Fletcher wrote:
> In message <3E3FE48C 9020205 webaccess mozquito com>
>           Stefano Debenedetti <ste webaccess mozquito com> wrote:
>
>
> > I think it's validating because, unless I remove the DOCTYPE decl, parsing
> > takes a few seconds instead of a fraction of a second and if I change the
> > DTD url in it to a non-existing one I get a NanoHTTP error saying that
> > external entity loading failed. Weird 'cause the code I use is:
>
>
> That's because it's tried to fetch an external entity - your DTD. Unless you
> tell it otherwise, it will go and fetch the DTD.
>
>
> > ctxt = libxml2.createFileParserCtxt(fileurl)
> > ctxt.validate(0)
> > ctxt.parseDocument()
>
>
> [snip]
>
> You're telling it not to validate, but it will still fetch the DTD so that
> it can resolve entities. If you don't want any network activity on DTDs then
> you will have to register an external entity loader function that rejects
> them. In xsltproc this is the --nonet option and the
> xmlNoNetExternalEntityLoader() function is the one you should be looking at
> to do this.