Re: [xml] libxml and backslash in dtd

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:39:32PM +0530, srikrishnan wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am using libxml module in my perl script to parse XML files against it DTD. For all my DTDs my script 
> works perfectly. But in the case of one DTD, backslash has been used throughout the DTD for defining 
> Entities path. Because of that I am not able to get parsed my XML files using that DTD. 

  the system identifier is an URI reference, and then its mapping to
file:// URIs should use / to indicate directories, taht's the standard.

> Also i have no rights to change the DTD from backslash to forwardslash, because customer will keep on 
> sending updating DTDs everytime.
> Is there any way to over come this problem?

 Try to set up a catalog remapping your old system identifiers to new
ones, see http://xmlsoft.org/catalog.html and the XML Catalog spec
at OASIS, this trick may work, but the the source DTDs are broken.

Daniel

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