Re: [xml] Ignore external subset

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 04:11:50PM +0200, Keim, Markus wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> i want to parse memory blocks using "xmlParseDocument" with a
> pre-build parser context (special I/O callbacks since we're using
> an abstraction layer for all I/O and memory related tasks).
> Obvious there is no base path for the documents, although they possibly
> include relative references to external DTD subsets.
> So i want to ignore the external subsets while parsing and validate the
> documents subsequently after providing a base path.

  How can you expect to "validate" without fetching the external
subset if there is one ? I cannot understand such a requirement.

> I've found that setting "parserCtxt->loadsubset" to zero (provided that
> "parserCtxt" is an "xmlParserCtxt") seems to work for me.
> I wonder if direct access of the "xmlParserCtxt" member is the supposed
> way to do such things, or is there a better way / API for it?

The new xmlReadxxx() APIs allows to both set the base and parser 
options. I will write the docs as soon as I have time, you can check
the archives from last month about them, I explained how they worked.
The xmllint.c code has also been updated to use those, look at it.

Daniel

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