Re: [xml] Ignore external subset

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 06:28:27PM +0200, Keim, Markus wrote:
> >   How can you expect to "validate" without fetching the external
> > subset if there is one ? I cannot understand such a requirement.
>
> Hum, i *don't* want to validate while parsing.
> On the contrary, i want to completely ignore the external subset,
> even if it's present, just parse in the document.

  Excellent, then you don't have anything to do, it's libxml2
default behaviour.

> While parsing i *can't* determine a base path for that documents,
> so, if "parseCtxt->loadsubset" is true (the default), the

  No that should not be the default. Something has changed that value.

> Using an own external entity loader, i want to validate the
> document subsequently.

  If there is an internal subset that won't work. If there is only
an external subset compute the URI-Reference (uri.h) parse it as a DTD
(xmlParseDTD) and validate the resulting tree (see valid.h).

Daniel

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