The first problem is that both throw errors because the DOCTYPE contains a
reference to "spec.dtd". No spec.dtd was available, so the only remedies are:
- edit out the reference to spec.dtd (i.e. use <!DOCTYPE spec [ )
- make a dummy spec.dtd
When I tried the first with AElfred it found an illegal character (-96),
which I take to be 160 (== nbsp). My edit was done with WordPad. Where did
this come from? [Note that AElfred seems quite happy with Lark.xml - Tim's
documentation for lark in XML].
I tried the second with Lark, using the line:
<!DOCTYPE spec SYSTEM "spec.dtd" [
but although I created spec.dtd in both the directory for pr.xml and the
directory where I was running Lark from it didn't work. I had to explicitly
hardcode something like:
<!DOCTYPE spec SYSTEM "file:/C:/xmlstuff/spec.dtd" [
I expect I have made some silly errors, but if so they are typical of the
sort of errors that people will make.
- Could DavidM confirm that AElfred does/does not work with the XML
version of the PR?
- Is is reasonable to expect parsers to throw fatal errors if they can't
find *.dtd? If so, we are going to have to work very hard to make sure that
*.dtd is always instantly available.
- should parsers accept relative filenames in documents - if so relative
to what?
- where has character -96 come from? [The download, wordpad?]
- or is it just a bad day?
P.
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