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> >Sorry for the repetition, but I 'll be surprised if there wasn't a
> >way to tell the parser the DTD to use ?
>
> Prepare to be surprised; as far as I know, that is not supported.
No problem, I was prepared ;-)
> In parsers which support plug-in "entity resolvers" you can (ab)use that
> feature to substitute the contents of one DTD for another, but the
> architecture of XML is that the "external subset" (the DTD) is supposed to
> be specified by the document's author and only _checked_ by the application
> which is reading it.
I remember the origin of the problem, and why the external subset was not written in
the XML by the supplier of the message : because we then had problems with the real
localisation of the file, in the machine where the app using Xerces runs.
For example, the line for the DTD which was supplied :
<!DOCTYPE OrderProposalRequest SYSTEM "OrderProposalRequest.dtd">
but the REAL place for the DTD file was in a directory such as "dtd" and the parse was
failing over and over.
Maybe the solution choiced (to no longer write the DTD line in the incoming message)
was not the good one, indeed.
The QUESTION then becomes: If it is possible for the sender to write the DTD line
again, what are the ways to indicate to the parser which directories to check in order
to find the DTD ?
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> You might want to consider doing some text-based manipulations before the
> document reaches the parser, to insert or change the DTD reference. But I
> don't really recommend that, since it will tend to produce a more fragile
> application than simply insisting that folks say what they mean.
I agree with you.
Thanks in advance,
Laurent.
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