Problem loading a grammar to check DTD

[Miguel Tena]

Hi,

 

I'm trying to validate a XML file against a DTD not specified inside the XML
(it doesn't have the common DOCTYPE declaration to indicate where lays the
DTD). I'm using the loadGrammar method the tell the parser which DTD file to
use. This method loads the grammar and everything seems to work fine but
when I do the parsing of the XML file the errors reported are about unknown
elements or not defined attributes, nothing about the actual structure
defined by the DTD. I've tried with SAX2, SAX and DOM parsers but I've found
the same problem. This is an example of my program:

 

                        // Initialize platform

                        XMLPlatformUtils::Initialize();

 

// Create Parser

                        SAX2XMLReader* parser =
XMLReaderFactory::createXMLReader();

                        

                        //

                        //Parser options

                        //

                        // Enable grammar reuse

                        parser->setFeature(
xercesc::XMLUni::fgXercesUseCachedGrammarInParse, true);

                        

                        // Required to validate against the DTD. Force the
checking of every element

                        parser->setFeature(
xercesc::XMLUni::fgSAX2CoreValidation, true); 

            

                        // Don't stop the parsing after the first fatal
error

                        parser->setExitOnFirstFatalError(false);

                                               

                        // Allow to load an external DTD

                        parser->setFeature(
xercesc::XMLUni::fgXercesLoadExternalDTD, true); 

                                    

                        // This will flush the grammar pool                

                        parser->resetCachedGrammarPool();

                                               

                        

// Set error handler, the error handler writes the error messages found
during the parsing into a file

                        OurErrorHandler errorHandler;

                        parser->setErrorHandler(&errorHandler);

                        errorHandler.resetErrors();

                        

                        

                        // Load grammar and cache it

                        Grammar* grammar = parser->loadGrammar( dtdFileName,
Grammar::DTDGrammarType, true);

 

                        //Parse XML file

                        parser->parse(fileName);

                        

The version of Xerces is 2.70 and the compiler is gcc 2.95 working on a
Solaris 2.8.

 

 

Does anybody know if I need to specify another option to correctly load the
DTD grammar? Is it compulsory to specify the DTD file inside the XML with a
DOCTYPE declaration?

 

Thanks a lot.

Miguel