> Why would the Java XML parser under Saxon8.7.1J need to 
> access the internet? 
> 
> Error on line 3 column 62 of file:/C:/aa-xml/hltapi/MLD.ori.html:
>     SXXP0003: Error reported by XML parser: Cannot read from
>     http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd 
> (www.w3.org)
> 

If your XML document references a DTD then the XML parser in general will
need a copy of the DTD. Unless it's clever and can find a cached copy, it
will follow the URI reference and fetch it.

(This is nothing to do with XSLT or Saxon, by the way)

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