[issue2124] xml.sax and xml.dom fetch DTDs by default

[Damien Neil]

Damien Neil <neild at misago.org> added the comment:

On Feb 3, 2009, at 3:12 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> This is DOM parsing, not SAX parsing.

1) The title of this ticket begins with "xml.sax and xml.dom...".
2) I am creating a SAX parser and passing it to xml.dom, which uses it.

> So break layers of abstraction, then. Or else, use dom.expatbuilder,
> and ignore SAX/pulldom for DOM parsing.

Is that really the answer?

Read the source code to xml.dom.*, and write hacks based on what I find 
there?  Note also that xml.dom.expatbuilder does not appear to be an 
external API--there is no mention of it in the documentation for 
xml.dom.*.

> This tracker is really not the place to ask questions; use python-list
> for that.

That was a rhetorical question.

The answer is, as best I can tell, "You can't do that."

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