On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Tal Dayan wrote:
> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 18:59:30 -0800
> From: Tal Dayan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: Jakarta Commons Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Jakarta Commons Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: RE: [digester] using non URL'ed DTD's
>
> Hello,
>
> We are still not able to use a DTD for validation because our DTD file has a
> path that
> is not acceptable by Digester and/or the underlying XML parser (the URL is
> 'file://d:/a/b/c.dtd' but the Windows drive letter 'd:' confuses
> everything).
Digester couldn't care less, as long as the JDK doesn't throw
MalformedURLException. If your parser chokes on this, it's time to get a
better parser :-). Or, figure out what your parser *will* accept for
Windows-based file paths. That's up to whatever parser you are using, not
Digester.
> Actually, this is a more general issue in cases where the DTD
> can not be referred to by a URL (e.g., when it is taken directly from a data
> base).
>
> My suggestion is to add another registration method that accepts a Reader
> instead of the URL. This way the DTD can be retrieved from file, in memory
> cache buffer, etc.
>
Both JAXP/1.1 and Xerces 1.4.3 work for me, on both Windows and Unix.
> Thanks,
>
> Tal
>
Craig
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