Re: [xml] alternate DTD locations

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 10:25:17AM +0000, Paul Emberson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is is possible to specify a search path for external entities when using 
> the xmlreader interface?
>
> Alternatively, is it possible to specify a DTD to fall back on if the 
> one specified in the XML file isn't found (again with xmlreader).  E.g. 
> it is possible to set a schema with xmlTextReaderSetSchema but I don't 
> see a DTD equivalent.
>
> Background:
>
> I am working on a tool which takes its input from xml files which 
> specify a dtd in the system identifier.  Currently I have to make 
> several copies of the DTDs into whichever directory the input is being 
> read from.  I want to be able to specify where the DTDs are stored as a 
> configuration option, or possibly derive it from where the executable 
> has been installed.  Ideally, I want to be able to specify something 
> like an include directory which acts as a base for the URIs in the 
> system identifier.

  Set up a catalog, it sounds exactly what you need:
    http://xmlsoft.org/catalog.html

Daniel

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