On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 03:48:13PM -0400, Zoltán Ördögh (GMail) wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am looking for a legal, built-in solution to override the SystemID in an
> XML document without having to patch the document on-the-fly myself; I want
> to avoid sting crunching when we have an advanced parser already.
>
> I.e.:
> xmlTextReaderPtr _ptrxmlReader=xmlReaderForFile(_sFilename.c_str(),
> _sEncoding, XML_PARSE_RECOVER, _sNewSystemID);
>
> I know it does not exist, this is just to illustrate what I want to achieve
> - not necessarily like this, but in way that's already in libxml.
>
> Below, you can find the problem description.
>
> The XML is generated on a machine, where the DTD may be located in, for
> example: ~/tool/sample.dtd , resulting in:
> <!DOCTYPE xmlexport SYSTEM "file:///~/tool/sample.dtd">
>
> The XML may be processed on other machines as well - where the DTD may be
> located elsewhere (e.g. /bin/tool/sample.dtd) - and then libxml
> (rightfully) throws an error because it did not find the DTD.
> The 'tool' knows its own location, so it could provide the new SystemID to
> the XML reader.
>
> Any tips?
>
> Could this be added to libxml itself (as new reader constructors)?
Hum, catalogs are done exactly for this:
http://xmlsoft.org/catalog.html
otherwise just override the I/O handling something along the lines of
what is presented in:
http://xmlsoft.org/examples/index.html#io1.c
Daniel
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