Re: AElfred and External Entities (was Re: Partial XML

Peter Murray-Rust (peter@ursus.demon.co.uk)
Sat, 17 Jan 1998 14:22:13

At 07:27 17/01/98 -0500, David Megginson wrote:
>Peter Murray-Rust writes:
>
> > Note that Lark and AElfred both throw errors for
> > <!DOCTYPE FOO SYSTEM "bar.dtd">
> > if bar.dtd cannot be found. This is reasonable (though frustrating) since
> > bar.dtd can alter the information in the document.
>
>Actually, AElfred gives you a hook for this: if you set the
>resolveEntity handler to return null for "bar.dtd", AElfred will not
>attempt to resolve the URL.

Excellent. This is another example of an area where consistency amongst
parser writers will be very useful.

P.

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