RE: Prevent Validation agains DTD of input file ??

[Christopher Raber]

Title: RE: Prevent Validation agains DTD of input file ??

You could provide your own custom entity resolver so that that the DTD is not actually accessed at run-time. See: http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/apidocs/org/xml/sax/EntityResolver.html     Chris Raber, Systems Engineer, AvantGo Inc. http://www.avantgo.com/   -----Original Message----- From: Yueming Xu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 3:00 PM To: Christopher Raber; 'Nicholas Waltham'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Prevent Validation agains DTD of input file ??   You can turn off the validation in different ways.  However, the DTD file has to exist if it is specified in the DOCTYPE of the source XML file.  Even though xalan does not validate, it will raise exception and quit if it can not find the DTD file.   To turn off the validation:   If you use SAX parser, you may use     SAXParserFactory.setValidating( false ); or     org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser.setFeature( "http://xml.org/sax/features/validation", false );   If you use DOMSource, you may use     DocumentBuilderFactory.setValidating( false ); or     org.apache.xerces.parsers.DOMParser.setFeature( "http://xml.org/sax/features/validation", false );   Whatever you use, the DTD file has to exist even if it is empty.   cheers,   Yueming Xu Sr. Consutling Architect Vitria Technology, Inc. ----- Original Message ----- From: Christopher Raber To: 'Nicholas Waltham' ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 6:31 AM Subject: RE: Prevent Validation agains DTD of input file ??   Sorry, not sure how to do this from the command line.   You can easily do it in code though: http://xml.apache.org/xerces-j/features.html   Also see: http://www.megginson.com/SAX/Java/features.html   Regards,   -Chris.   Chris Raber, Systems Engineer, AvantGo Inc. http://www.avantgo.com/   -----Original Message----- From: Nicholas Waltham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 8:27 AM To: Christopher Raber; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Prevent Validation agains DTD of input file ??   Hello Chris,  Thanks very much for your message. Could you tell me how I do that from the command line? I cannot find it in the manual.. Sorry to bother you again. Thanks, Nicholas Waltham   ----- Original Message ----- From: Christopher Raber   To: 'Nicholas Waltham' ; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 2:23 PM Subject: RE: Prevent Validation agains DTD of input file ??   Set the feature http://xml.org/sax/features/validation to false. Chris Raber, Systems Engineer, AvantGo Inc. http://www.avantgo.com/ -----Original Message----- From: Nicholas Waltham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 4:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Prevent Validation agains DTD of input file ?? Hello all,  I am currently calling Xalan like this? java org.apache.xalan.xslt.Process -in in.xml -xsl style.xsl -out out.xml Obviously its vital the input XML file is well formed, but I would like to have the option to not validate agains a DTD, even when the DTD to use is specified in the XML file. How can I turn off this validation. If I don't have the DTD file, it just stops and refuses to go any further. Thanks in advance, Nicholas Waltham