On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 01:33:44PM +0100, Murray Cumming wrote: > Should I be able to validate an XML document (such as a .glade file) > that has no DOCTYPE line, and therefore doesn't specify a DTD? > > When I try it with xmllint, I get this error > validity error : Validation failed: no DTD found ! > even when I have specified a local DTD with --dtdvalid.
Works for me with the version from git head: paphio:~/XML -> cat 127772.dtd <!ELEMENT a (b*)> <!ELEMENT b (#PCDATA)> paphio:~/XML -> cat 127772.xml <?xml version="1.0"?> <a> <b>b text</b> </a> paphio:~/XML -> xmllint --dtdvalid 127772.dtd 127772.xml <?xml version="1.0"?> <a> <b>b text</b> </a> paphio:~/XML -> vi 127772.xml paphio:~/XML -> xmllint --dtdvalid 127772.dtd 127772.xml <?xml version="1.0"?> <a> <c>b text</c> </a> 127772.xml:2: element a: validity error : Element a content does not follow the DTD, expecting (b)*, got (c ) 127772.xml:3: element c: validity error : No declaration for element c Document 127772.xml does not validate against 127772.dtd paphio:~/XML -> check your version ... Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ dan...@veillard.com | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ _______________________________________________ xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ xml@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml
