At 10:26 AM 1/10/00 -0700, Jeff Lewis wrote: >You should specify the protocol:
No. <!DOCTYPE foo SYSTEM "filename.dtd"> is unconditionally just fine and should be handled correctly. Per the relevant RFCs this is a "relative URI reference". However. In my experience, handling "file:" URIs (which is probably what this turns out to be) is one of the huge portability holes in your friendly local Java base classes. In the test mainline for one of his java parsers, James Clark splodged together a series of heroic heuristics that seem to nearly always work with file: URLs. Might be worth stealing them. -Tim
