Re: [xml] xmllint as minimal non-validating parser?

[Chuck Bearden <cbearden rice edu>]

Aack! I forgot to specify my platform and libxml2 version:

  Linux (Ubuntu 7.04)
  xmllint: using libxml version 20627

Chuck

On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 04:33:37PM -0500, Chuck Bearden wrote:
> My reading of the XML Recommendation:
> The well-formedness constraint "Entity Declared" [1] does not apply
> to an XML document with an external DTD subset and which does not
> have a standalone declaration of 'no', since on-validating processors
> are not required to read external DTD subsets.  Such a document may
> contain internal general entity references that aren't defined in an
> internal DTD subset and nonetheless be well-formed.
>
> The attached well-formed, valid document contains a reference to an
> entity defined in the external DTD subset.  However, I can't find a
> way to make xmllint treat it as well-formed:
>
>   $ xmllint --noout --noent Briantest.xml
>   Briantest.xml:20: parser error : Entity 'plus' not defined
>       <m:mo>&plus;</m:mo>
>                   ^
>   $ xmllint --noout Briantest.xml
>   Briantest.xml:20: parser error : Entity 'plus' not defined
>       <m:mo>&plus;</m:mo>
>                   ^
>   $
>
> Is there a way to make xmllint do no more than check documents
> against the well-formedness constraints, to emulate a minimal
> non-validating processor?
>
> [1] <http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml-20060816/#wf-entdeclared>
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Chuck
> --
> Chuck Bearden (cbearden rice edu ; 713.348.3661)
> XML Engineer, Connexions
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