Well, I too had this kind of requirement some time back.
I didn't find any direct API for doing this. Easiest thing is
prepending doctype decleration of external dtd to xml string
before passing to parser.
--- Raj.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shantanu Dutta [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 3:12 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Validating XML.
>
> Hi,
>
> I have been looking to validate and XML, without
> having a reference of the DTD in the XML file. I am
> not so sure if this is possible.
> At present, I have an XML string as a return value of
> a function and cannot have information regarding the
> DTD in the string itself. So, I want to know if there
> is an API that takes the XML file path & the DTD file
> path and validates the XML.
> I would really appreciate any information on this.
>
> Beside, while parsing an XML document using DOMParser,
> I refer to the DTD using the following in the XML
> file:
> <!DOCTYPE NEInfo [
> ...
> ]>
>
> But while parsing, the parser tries to parse the above
> ("DOCTYPE") as an element.
> I am not sure if this is a valid behaviour.
> Please let me know any inputs on this.
>
> Cheers
> Shantanu.
>
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