On Fri, 14/01/2005 10:19 -0700, Mike Brown wrote: > Tim van Erven wrote: >> And the output of my program looks like this, which won't validate: >> >> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> >> <!DOCTYPE ltp> >> <ltp xmlns="http://www.example.org/info"; >> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; >> xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.example.org/info someschema.xsd"> >> >> <text>This is some modified sample text.</text> >> </ltp> >> >> Does anyone know how to get rid of the !DOCTYPE line? Is that the right >> thing to do anyway?
> Another possibility is that the tool you are using does not recognize the > minimal DOCTYPE declaration that is being added to your document. Such a > declaration serves no real purpose, but is permitted to exist by the XML > spec. > It is an often-overlooked 'feature' of XML though; some parsers may reject it > out of ignorance. I'm using the validator at: http://apps.gotdotnet.com/xmltools/xsdvalidator/ It stopped complaining after removing the DOCTYPE declaration - thanks Andrew Clover!: if document.doctype is not None: document.removeChild(document.doctype) Thanks for the explanation. This solves my problem. Regards, Tim -- Tim van Erven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ XML-SIG maillist - XML-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/xml-sig
