Xalan is not "going after anything" or ignoring anything -- it's the Xerces parser that is parsing your document.
The XML recommendation does not require a parser to ignore a DTD if the document is standalone: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#sec-rmd Dave Brian Grainger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: (bcc: David N Bertoni/Cambridge/IBM) 04/30/2002 06:02 Subject: Re: Xalan phone home PM At 03:30 PM 4/30/02 +0100, you wrote: I've been able to track down what is causing the network activity when I invoke Xalan. It is the reference to an external DTD in the document being transformed. However, when I set standalone="yes" in the XML declaration at the top of the document, Xalan ignores this and still goes after the external DTD. My understanding of how this is supposed to work is that if a document contains both standalone="yes" and an external schema reference, the parser is supposed to throw an exception, but that isn't happening. I'll leave that one for you experts to figure out. Regards, Brian
