On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 04:33:37PM -0500, Chuck Bearden wrote: > My reading of the XML Recommendation: > The well-formedness constraint "Entity Declared" [1] does not apply > to an XML document with an external DTD subset and which does not > have a standalone declaration of 'no', since on-validating processors > are not required to read external DTD subsets. Such a document may > contain internal general entity references that aren't defined in an > internal DTD subset and nonetheless be well-formed. > > The attached well-formed, valid document contains a reference to an > entity defined in the external DTD subset. However, I can't find a > way to make xmllint treat it as well-formed: > > $ xmllint --noout --noent Briantest.xml > Briantest.xml:20: parser error : Entity 'plus' not defined > <m:mo>+</m:mo> > ^ > $ xmllint --noout Briantest.xml > Briantest.xml:20: parser error : Entity 'plus' not defined > <m:mo>+</m:mo> > ^ > $ > > Is there a way to make xmllint do no more than check documents > against the well-formedness constraints, to emulate a minimal > non-validating processor?
You ask for --noent , hence requesting entity substitution, hence loading the DTD. The default behaviour without --noent will do the default behaviour you are requesting. Daniel -- Red Hat Virtualization group http://redhat.com/virtualization/ Daniel Veillard | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ _______________________________________________ xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml
