[XML-SIG] disabling catalog support

[Martin v. Löwis]

Martin Blais <blais at iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> is there a quick way to disable the catalog parsing in PyXML?
> 
> i've got code that doesn't need catalogs for parsing but since
> updating to the new version of PyXML it doesn't work anymore (code
> trying to fetch DTD file from the internet, machine not connected to
> internet, don't want to setup catalog from python code...)
> thanks.

It depends on the XML parser that you are using in the first place
whether PyXML tries to parse the catalog. For example, sgmlop will
never try that.

Regards,
Martin