Re: [xml] alternate DTD locations

[Paul Emberson <lists calidasoft co uk>]

Kail,  I saw this but I wanted to validate at the same time as reading 
to get default values.

Daniel, the catalog is exactly what I want.

Thanks both for your help.

Paul

Kail wrote:
> It is possible to validate documents which had not been validated at
> initial parsing time or documents which have been built from scratch
> using the API. Use the xmlValidateDtd() function.
>
> xmlDtdPtr dtd = xmlParseDTD(NULL, filename_of_dtd); /* parse the DTD */
> So you can load this from a remote location ^_^
>
>
> Then create a validation context and use xmlValidateDtd(). This from valid.h
>
> Kail
>
>
> 2005/11/8, Paul Emberson <lists calidasoft co uk>:
>
> > 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.
> >
> > Thanks for any help or suggestions,
> >
> > Paul
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