On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Nikhil Dinesh wrote: > On 18 Aug 2004, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen wrote: > > > [offline] > > > > > > On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 22:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Ankit and Bob thanks for your replies. > > > > > > > > > >(Note that some processors interpret the existence of > > > >a DOCTYPE declaration as a request to validate the > > > >document and abort if it's not valid; you will need > > > >either to avoid those processors or find a way to tell > > > >them just to read the DTD for the entity declarations.) > > > > > > > > > Hi CM, > > > > > > > > > Yes i think thats exaclty what is happening. Im using the Xalan > > > processor. How > > > do i get down to tell the processor to read the DTD for entity > > > declarations only ? > > > and not to look for element definitions ? > > > > > > Good question. I hope someone else on the list knows. > > > > Can you just trap the error? > > > > Michael > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > This may be a little more complicated than is necessary, but working with > collections of DTDs and Schemas is always problematic. > > Since you're using Xalan, consider using a SAX2SAX transform. > > In the SAX source set http://xml.org/sax/features/validation to be false. > Your entities will come out expanded. > > In the SAXResult, set Content and LexicalHandler which just wrap around > the TransformerHandler(this TransformerHandler will be the input to your > actual transformation). Now in the Handlers which wrap the > TransformerHandler just dont pass on the DTD events which will be obtained > by your lexical handler. > > If I remember right, you should find code snippets in Xalan samples/trax. > > If efficiency is an issue you can bypass SAX2SAX and just do a Handler to > source transform pretty similarly.
Untested but the following might work: Instead of using <!DOCTYPE...> use: <!ENTITY entityDeclarations SYSTEM "sys path to DTD"> &entityDeclarations; ...rest of xml... --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
