At 14.58 25/06/01 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>More details on second question...
>
>I will be provided with an XML file from another party. We will agree on
>the DTD beforehand, of course. But they could send me a file which a
>modified DTD and the XML data in the rest of the file could match that
>modified DTD. So Xerces would parse and validate the file without any
>problems. But my code to walk the doc tree and extract data would likely
>break. So I would like to keep our agreed-upon DTD in a separate file.
>Then apply that DTD to the file they provide me. Ideally, I would ignore
>any DTD that they provided with their XML file.
XML allows you to mix internal and external DTDs, like in
<!DOCTYPE SYSTEM "Path_to_DTD_we_agreed_on" [ <!-- extra elements and
modified definitions go here --!> ]>
Unfortunately, in Xerces you could easily avoid loading the external DTD,
but I don't think you can avoid loading the internal one (that, btw,
overrides what is written in the external one)
Alberto
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Alberto Massari
eXcelon Corp.
http://www.StylusStudio.com
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