On 25/07/06, Miguel Montes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi: Working on the HTML parser, I found the following problem. The HTML parser can be parameterized by a DTD. The class javax.swing.text.html.parser.DTD has a method read(DataInputStream), that reads a DTD in binary format. AFAIK, there is no public specification of this format, and the recent contribution of the HTML component (HARMONY-948) seems to use its own binary format. Although I don´t know if there are applications out there using this method to load custom DTDs, the method is public, so I think we should be compatible with Sun. That is, we should be able to read Sun's bdtd, and our bdtd should be readable by Sun's implementation.
I agree that it would be good to aim for interoperability here.
Am i missing something? Does anyone know if there is a specification? Is it OK to reverse engineer the file "html32.bdtd"?
I don't know of a spec, if you don't find one after some searching it may be something we want to go back and ask Sun. I recommend that you don't reverse engineer their implementation/format to figure it out. In the meantime we shall have to remain incompatible. Regards, Tim -- Tim Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) IBM Java technology centre, UK.
