You're right, the non-test version of expat doesn't read the external
DTD subset. (A conforming parser is not required to, I think.)
What's this new shared-library expat release by Clark Cooper on
SourceForge based on - test or non-test? I guess that Sablot will
eventually use this new version, so I hope it has the features of the
test one.
Tom
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>
> I am using php with the sablotron extension.
> Now, i want to use entities (general e.'s, i think) to implement
> localization similar to how it is done with mozilla/xul, i.e.
> having &entities; in the data files, and define them in a dtd,
> so the .xml is not subject to translation.
>
> There was a thread on the mailing list about that named
> "External entities (and perl)", but it didn't get me any further.
>
> This mail has an attachment with a tiny example, made of an xml,xsl and dtd.
>
> When processed with sabcmd, the entity references just disappear.
>
> I also processed the xml/xsl with xmlwf from expat using the following:
> xmlwf -x -p -d /tmp/ ex.xml
>
> the magic that makes it work as expected is in the -p option, which
> is only available in the test version of expat.
> (Althougt i'd expect a lower-case ä and less strange chars)
>
> So i tried to build sablotron with the test-expat, and patched parser.cpp
> with XML_SetParamEntityParsing(theParser, XML_PARAM_ENTITY_PARSING_ALWAYS );
> in TreeConstructer::parseDataLineUsingExpat, which sadly resulted in
> segfaults with sabcmd and libphp/apache.
>
> Related to this entities stuff is the fact that it will be german text,
> so i would *really* like to have umlauts like ü and the like, just like
> 's should be preserved on their way to html.
>
> Maybe some of you guys has already faced this spots, since in the
> mainstream-xml documentation, this is quite a bit underrepresented.
>
> btw: the entities are expanded, when declared inline with the xml.
>
> CU, SN
> ------
> The UNIX equivalent of the "Blue Screen of Death" would be called
> "kernel panic" .It obviously exists, since I have heard and read about it,
> but I've never been witness to it in my professional career.
> John Kirch,
> Networking Consultant and Microsoft Certified Professional (Windows NT)
>
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