Hi Vincent, i'm trying to reproduce your problem.
This is what I did. $ wget http://files.basex.org/releases/latest/BaseX83-20150825.081504.zip $ unzip BaseX83-20150825.081504.zip $ ./bin/basexgui GUI: declare option db:chop 'false'; declare option db:dtd 'true'; declare option db:catfile 'etc/catalog.xml'; let $xmlFile := 'etc/factbook.xml' let $parsed := doc($xmlFile) let $report := validate:dtd-report($xmlFile) return ($report, $parsed) Result <report> <status>invalid</status> <message level="Error" line="2" column="10" url="file:/Users/holu/code/test/basex/etc/factbook.xml">Document root element "mondial", must match DOCTYPE root "null".</message> <message level="Error" line="2" column="10" url="file:/Users/holu/code/test/basex/etc/factbook.xml">Document is invalid: no grammar found.</message> </report> <mondial> <continent id="f0_119" name="Europe"/> <continent id="f0_123" name="Asia"/> <continent id="f0_126" name="America"/> <continent id="f0_129" name="Australia/Oceania"/> ... Can we try to 'model' your problem using data that is available in the public? Thanks A. Holupirek > On 02.09.2015, at 03:18, Lizzi, Vincent <[email protected]> > wrote: > > It appears that the Validate module is not using catalogs. I’m working with > XML that contains a DTD DOCTYPE declaration with a public identifier and a > system identifier that contains the filename of the DTD, and I have set up a > catalog that provides the DTD location. Here is a rough example: > > declare option db:chop 'false'; > declare option db:dtd 'true'; > declare option db:catfile 'schemas/catalog.xml'; > > let $xmlFile := ‘path/to/file.xml’ > let $parsed := doc($xmlFile) > let $report := validate:dtd-report($xmlFile) > return ($report, $parsed) > > This fails on the validate:dtd-report line. The error report indicates that > BaseX is trying to find the DTD in the same folder as the XML file. > > I know the catalog is working because the doc() call is parsing the XML and > populating default attributes, and if I remove the db:catfile option > declaration the doc() call fails. > > If I add a path to the DTD in the second parameter in > validate:dtd-report($xmlFile, ‘path/to/dtd.dtd’) the validation works. I’m > not sure why this is needed because the XML contains a DOCTYPE and the > catalog should be resolving the DTD location. > > Is this intentional? There are use cases to require that validation is done > using a specific DTD and not simply any DTD that the XML happens to declare. > In other cases however it is easier to validate using the DTD that is already > identified in the DOCTYPE of the XML file. Is this a bug? > > Thanks, > Vincent
