Re: [xml] Parser error: html entities not defined

["Bruno Dilly" <bruno dilly gmail com>]

Indeed, the rss is not-well-formed. Is it possible to load an external
dtd not included in the rss?

For example, can I load
http://my.netscape.com/publish/formats/rss-0.91.dtd before parse the
file? And is possible to load it from a local file? How could I do it?

Thanks a lot

On 9/4/07, Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 10:19:18AM -0400, Liam R E Quin wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 07:01 -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > > On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 06:39:01AM -0300, Bruno Dilly wrote:
> > > > Hi people,
> > > >
> > > > I'm trying to parse RSS with html entities, but I'm having the
> > > > following errors when it tries to parse the rss file:
> > > > Entity 'ntilde' not defined;
> > > > Entity 'iacute' not defined;
> > [...]
> > >   are the HTML entities defined in the RSS DTD ? if yes then you
> > > need to ask to load the DTD. If no, then using them there is an error.
> >
> > It's worse than that :-)
> >
> > RSS requires HTML markup to be escaped in descriptions, so you have
> > to write things like
> >     &amp;ntilde;
> > and the same for elements, &lt;i&gt;...&lt;/i&gt; to get <i>...</i> into
> > an RSS feed.
> >
> > A lot of RSS feeds are invalid.
>
>   By default libxml2 XML parser does not fetch the external subset of DTDs.
> So the undeclared entities are an error but not a fatal error (since of
> course they never set standalone="yes"). The fact they are invalid doesn't
> bother me that much, but it seems in practice they are often not well-formed
> and a lot of RSS readers don't use XML parsers to work around this. One
> thing is sure, I won't encourage this trend...
>
> Daniel
>
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