[XML-SIG] Re: turning off dtd resolver in sax

[Andrew Shearer]

Apologies to the list for posting the same answer twice in a week, but 
hopefully this will be helpful:

> I had a similar problem with the first cut of a parser for Apple's 
> PList format. It worked fine when I was connected to the Internet, but 
> failed when I wasn't. The documents specified an Internet-based DTD 
> when they really could stand alone, so I used code similar to the 
> following:
>
> parser = xml.sax.make_parser()
> parser.setFeature(xml.sax.feature_external_ges, 0)
> parser.setFeature(xml.sax.feature_external_pes, 0)
>
> The complete code is at

>  <http://www.shearersoftware.com/software/developers/plist/>.

On Thursday, October 23, 2003, at 12:10  PM, Paul Tremblay 
<phthenry at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Is there a way to run SAX if the dtd in the document points to a url,
> and the url cannot be retrieved? I can parse my documents with SAX so
> long as I am connected to the internet. But when I am not connected, I
> get an error that the url cannot be found.
>
> I could just delete the dtd, but this is kind of a hack. I am
> distributing code, and I would like for the XML document which I am
> parsing to have a dtd.

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Andrew Shearer
http://www.shearersoftware.com/