Problem importing dtd settings file in MS Windows

[José Rui Simões]

Dear all,

I have a problem that has been annoying me for the last few days.
I am building a test framework. Our test cases are created in an xml 
file which depicts the test case, since some settings are common to all 
the test cases we have a dtd file with these settings. My problem is 
that the xml and dtd files are correctly parsed in Ubuntu 7.04 but 
aren't in MS Windows.

XML file:

<?xml version = "1.0" encoding = "UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE execution [
   <!-- settings -->
   <!ENTITY % settings SYSTEM "settings.dtd">
   %settings;
]>

<execution>
   <outputfiles deleteprevious="true"></outputfiles>
   <testmanager>
  
   <outputter class="CAggregOutputter" create="true" level="20" 
name="agregoutputter" >
           <outputter class="CConsoleOutputter" create="true" 
level="20" name="consoleoutputter" />
           <outputter class="CBufferedFileOutputter" create="true" 
level="20" name="bufferedfileoutputter" />
       </outputter>
      
       <!--&defaultuserinteraction;-->
       <userinteraction waittoend="true" rank="0" attachdebugger="false" />
       <exception handlesystem="true" />
      
       <resultmanager class="CMsgCreatorResultManager" create="true" 
name="resultmanager">
           <xmlfile>./result-test-msg-id.xml</xmlfile>
       </resultmanager>
      
       <thread name="default" create="true">
  
       <scheduler class="CSchedulerStepInterleaving" create="true" 
name="scheduler" />
          
           <syncgroup class="CMsgCreatorSyncGroup" create="true" 
name="test_msg_id">
              
               <resourcepool class="CRCP_Integer" create="true" 
name="msg-id">
                   <range begin="0" end="6" step="1" />
               </resourcepool>
              
               <resourcepool class="CRCP_Integer" create="true" 
name="msg-destination">
                   <range begin="0" end="128" step="32" />
               </resourcepool>
              
               <resourcepool class="CRCP_String" create="true" 
name="name_of_tester">
                   <resource class="CRSC_String" create="true" 
name="user login"></resource>
               </resourcepool>
                  
               <resourcepool class="CRCP_String" create="true" 
name="name_of_tag">
                   <resource class="CRSC_String" create="true" 
name="cvs tag"></resource>
               </resourcepool>
              
               <test class="CTestMsgID" create="true" name="TestMsgID">
                   <skipto iteration="0"/>
               </test>
          
           </syncgroup>
      
       </thread>
      
   <run times="1" />
      
   </testmanager>
      
</execution>


DTD file:

<!ENTITY outputLvl "20">
<!ENTITY name_of_tester "user login">
<!ENTITY name_of_tag "cvs tag">
<!ENTITY defaultuserinteraction '<userinteraction waittoend="true" 
rank="0" attachdebugger="false" />'>
<!ENTITY defaultexception '<exception handlesystem="true" />'>

the parsing is done using the following code

The code where it the problem occurs is this section.
CODE:

   XMLPlatformUtils::Initialize();
   m_pcXMLParser = new XercesDOMParser ();

   m_strURL = str_url;

   m_pcXMLParser->setCreateEntityReferenceNodes(false);

   // If we have an URL create an input source:
   if (!m_strURL.empty ()) {
       m_pcInputSource = new URLInputSource (XMLURL (m_strURL.c_str ()));

       m_pcXMLParser->parse (*m_pcInputSource);


       if (m_pcXMLParser->getDocument () == NULL)
           throw TESTEXCEPTION("Found empty xml document. Possibly 
tried to open wrong document(see the next files: setings.dtd,..).");

       if (m_pcXMLParser->getDocument ()->getDocumentElement () == NULL)
           throw TESTEXCEPTION("Found empty xml document. Possibly 
tried to open wrong document(see the next files: setings.dtd,..).");

   } else
       m_pcInputSource = NULL;


In Windows it always returns null in the "m_pcXMLParser->getDocument 
()->getDocumentElement ()" line. I have noticed that if I remove the 
"%settings" line in the XML file it does not return null but it also 
doesn't import the settings, so no use for this solution.

I have been searching google and the user mailing list for something 
similar but couldn't find anything. One more thing I'm using the static 
version of Xerces-C 2.7 library.

Hope you can help me, any more info you need please ask.

Thanks in advance.

Kind Regards

--

José Rui Simões

Junior Engineer

Critical Software, SA

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