> For some reason our server is having errors connecting to w3c.org, and > this is causing my dom4j apps to break. I'd like to turn off validation > and not parse an external DTD
You could provide your own entity resolver: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/org/xml/sax/EntityResolver.html You can use the entity resolver to point to a local copy of the DTD, or a subset of this DTD to resolve the entity references. > but I also need to have the entity in my xhtml. My coworker was > saying that he had to use numeric entities, like   for to be > able to use DOM without a DTD.(he's not using dom4j though) Either use character references or declare the entities using an internal DTD subset. > I don't know if it's xerces or dom4j, but somehow it ends up with a ? > instead of a non-breaking space when I serialize the document The problem is with the underlying XML parser (dom4j does not know anything about entity references). When an entity reference can not be resolved, the parser might replace it with a '?' character. http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#wf-entdeclared Kind regards, Edwin -- http://www.edankert.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ dom4j-user mailing list dom4j-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dom4j-user
