Re: [xml] Relative path to DTD: should it work?

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 01:19:05PM -0500, Parag Chandra wrote:
> <!DOCTYPE qa SYSTEM "qa.dtd">
>
> When I try to validate this document against the DTD, libxml2 complains
> with 'failed to load external entity "qa.dtd"'. If I modify the entity
> path to be absolute, as in

  strange, that shoudl work.

> <!DOCTYPE qa SYSTEM "c:/development/qa.dtd">

  Warning, a system identifier is an URI-Reference, not a file path !
What you pasted is likely to not work.

> it works. I've tried searching in the mailing archive, and it seems like

  strange again, there is some specific Windows code trying to deal
with that filepath/URI-Reference conflict ...

Daniel

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