• To: rickc@r...
• Subject: Re: expat question: reading DTD
• From: Bob Foster <bob@o...>
• Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 08:47:23 -0800
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <200501181613.j0IGDmfG032057@a...>
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The HTML 4.0.1 DTD is not an XML DTD; it's SGML.

Bob Foster

rickc@r... wrote:
> Hello -
> 
> Somewhere in the expat docs this list is given as a place to
> ask questions. I've looked on the web for an answer
> and have come up empty, so I hope it's OK to ask here.
> 
> What I want to do is use expat to read HTML 4.01. I have
> no problem with the requirement of the input being
> well formed. But, to do this I have to read the standard
> "loose" or "strict" DTD. 
> 
> What I've tried:
> 
> XML_SetParamEntityParsing(parser, XML_PARAM_ENTITY_PARSING_ALWAYS);
> XML_SetExternalEntityRefHandler(parser,ext_ref_handler);
> 
> and then in ext_ref_handler, create a sub_parser:
> 
> XML_ExternalEntityParserCreate(parser,context,encoding)
> 
> and feed the DTD file to it.
> 
> The problem:
> 
> It chokes on the first non-comment line (an ENTITY) in loose.dtd
> from w3.org with a syntax error. It doesn't seem to like the "--"
> as a comment delimiter.
> 
> Should I not use loose.dtd? I kinda assumed it is a valid DTD...
> 
> Are there any examples/samples of parsing a DTD? I found lots of
> descriptions of how to do it (which seems to be what I did) but
> no code.
> 
> This is with version expat-1.95.8 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rick
> 
> rickc
> rdrop.com

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