• To: "'Mikko Saesmaa'" <saesmaa@m...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Processing external DTD subset as part of DTD validation
• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 12:34:50 +0100
• Cc: 'Pekka Kilpeläinen' <pekka.kilpelainen@c...>
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> Our original idea was to wrap the DTD inside the
> prolog of a dummy document instance. The problem with this approach
> is that this way we would pass the declarations to the parser as an
> /internal/ DTD subset, which has different restrictions on the use of
> parameter entities than an external subset.

Then instead of wrapping, why not just reference the DTD (as an external
DTD) from a dummy document instance, and parse the dummy document instance?

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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