Sure. Set up a nonvalidating SAX parser, and feed its output to Xalan as a SAXSource. Of course some XPath results may be changed if you aren't validating, but presumably that doesn't affect your case or you wouldn't have asked this question.
Alternatively, of course, you can plug an entity resolver into that parser and redirect it to locally cached copies of the DTDs, if they're stable enough that you can get away with this; that would let you validate locally. Standard parser configuration issues, not specific to Xalan. ______________________________________ "... Three things see no end: A loop with exit code done wrong, A semaphore untested, And the change that comes along. ..." -- "Threes" Rev 1.1 - Duane Elms / Leslie Fish (http://www.ovff.org/pegasus/songs/threes-rev-11.html)
