> 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). 

>From RFC 1738:
> A file URL takes the form:
> 
>    file://<host>/<path>
> 
> <snip>
> As a special case, <host> can be the string "localhost" or the empty string; this 
> is interpreted as `the machine from which the URL is being interpreted'.

With two slashes, "d:" is a host name. With three slashes, the URL should be 
interpreted
correctly. By the grace of many URL parsers, one slash sometimes works too.

Louis Tribble


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