That did the trick; basically I just took the HTML entities files from the w3c, coerced the syntax into the type xerces was expecting, pasted them together into one DTD file and referenced that with the DOCTYPE directive. It works well.
I was fighting with it for a while, getting odd errors, and it turned out the reason was that there really -was- an error in the syntax of one of the tags present in the XML I was sucking out of a database. Someone had left the semicolon off the end of a ™ This became clear when I backed off and tried a trivial example before doing the full-blown mess. Nick On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Shane Curcuru wrote: > One traditional way is to provide a DTD or schema that defines these > entities for the input doc and make sure the parser can use it (to > expand them, or at least to not barf at them). > > This is really a parser question, since Xalan doesn't even see the > input document itself (we only get data after the parser's parsed it), > so you might want to ask on a xerces list. > > ===== > - Shane > > <eof aka="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > .sig="Du sublime au ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas." /> > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more > http://games.yahoo.com/ > -- "The aptly-named morons.org is an obscenity-laced screed..." -- Robert P. Lockwood, Catholic League director of research Nick Johnson, version 2.0 http://www.spatula.net/
