ok thank you, work around seems good enough On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 5:05 AM, Michael Glavassevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Someone asked a similar question last month [1]. It was regarding XML > Schema validation but I assume you cannot do it with DTDs either. > > FYI ... The Java version of Xerces provides support for in-memory DOM > validation against DTDs and XML Schemas. > > [1] http://marc.info/?l=xerces-c-users&m=121438422020361&w=2 > > Michael Glavassevich > XML Parser Development > IBM Toronto Lab > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "Daniel Burrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 07/20/2008 10:49:05 > PM: > > > As I understand it, when xerces validates an xml against a dtd, the dtd > it > > validates against is specified in the xml file. > > Is it possible to validate an xml file in it's dom form in memory against > a > > dtd also loaded in memory? > > > > i.e., I would parse the xml file with validation off into a DOM format. > > somehow load the dtd into memory (how would this be done?) > > and then validate the dom tree against the dtd? > > > > Or can you only validate the contents of an xml file as it's being > parsed? >
