Sounds good. Thanks again!
Mary Huang
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dean Roddey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 5:08 PM
Subject: RE: validation with arbitrary DTD
> You are kind of out of luck. The problem is that internal subset stuff has
> to override external subset stuff. So if we allowed you to have internal
> subset, this wouldn't work, since you'd overwrite it every time. Or we'd
> have to make a complete copy of everything and put it back each time.
About
> the only thing you could do would be to keep the dummy file and DTD in
> memory, and do a pre-parse each time of the dummy file, to cause the DTD
> info to be reloaded. Then parse the target file with the reuseValidator
flag
> set.
>
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> Dean Roddey
> Software Geek Extraordinaire
> Portal, Inc
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mary Huang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 12:54 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: validation with arbitrary DTD
>
>
> Dean,
>
> Thanks for the information. Right now, the files to be parsed do not have
> any internal subset, so your suggestion will work. However, if internal
> subsets were to come into the picture, what would I resort to then?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Mary Huang
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dean Roddey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 1:15 PM
> Subject: RE: validation with arbitrary DTD
>
>
> > Do a parse of a dummy file which uses the DTD you want. On subsequent
> parses
> > on that same parser instance, set the 'reuseValidator' flag to true.
This
> > will cause it to reuse the contents already in the validator (i.e. the
DTD
> > that it parsed the last time.)
> >
> > Note that this will NOT work if the files to be parsed have any internal
> > subset!
> >
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> > Dean Roddey
> > Software Geek Extraordinaire
> > Portal, Inc
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> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mary Huang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 8:31 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: validation with arbitrary DTD
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > My application uses the DOM parser to parse an XML file which does not
> > mention a DTD to validate against. I would like the parser to use an
> > arbitrary DTD for validation. What's the best way to do this? I have
> looked
> > at EntityResolver but am not sure how to use it. Is EntityResolver the
> only
> > way to do this, or is there an alternate method? Any help will be much
> > appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Mary Huang
> >
> >
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