This is libxml2 2.5.7. Here's the input DTD, and the input XML:
10:21:47 [EMAIL PROTECTED] examples]$ cat /tmp/tiny.dtd <!ELEMENT Foo (Bar+)> <!ELEMENT Bar (#PCDATA)> 10:25:42 [EMAIL PROTECTED] examples]$ cat /tmp/tiny.xml <!DOCTYPE Foo PUBLIC "" "/tmp/tiny.dtd"> <Foo> </Foo> Here's xmllint working properly (with the `-valid' switch): 10:20:52 [EMAIL PROTECTED] examples]$ xmllint -noout -valid /tmp/tiny.xml /tmp/tiny.xml:2: validity error: Element Foo content does not follow the DTD Expecting (Bar)+, got () </Foo> ^ Here's xmllint failing, by not reporting an error: 10:20:45 [EMAIL PROTECTED] examples]$ xmllint -noout -dtdvalid /tmp/tiny.dtd /tmp/tiny.xml 10:20:46 [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ echo $? 0 I could not repro this problem on Linux, using the same version of libxml2. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/