Re: any idea why validator(-jp) would repeatedly fetch XHTML DTDs?

On May 2, 2006, at 1:36, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
> How about other DTDs, e.g. those for HTML?

They also get downloaded, although less so than XHTML ones.

attached is a small file giving a good idea (I think) of the frequency 
at which the DTDs are requested. XHTML1 are the most popular by far, 
with HTML4 transitional and xhtml-mod DTD second and third.

> I would suspect this is due
> documents that have an incorrect XHTML FPI and so get recognized as 
> HTML
> documents; since the XHTML DTDs are not in the SGML catalog, OpenSP 
> will
> fetch the XHTML DTD specified in the SI over the network. If that is 
> the
> problem, you would however be able to reproduce it.

Hmm, I guess that does not explain everything, but that's a tempting 
explanation. I'll test it today. If that were the case, would merging 
sgml.dtd and xml.dtd, and have xml.soc and sgml.soc refer to the same 
fallback system catalog, help? I can't think of any issue it may cause, 
but I could be overlooking something.

> Likewise, the custom DTD test would have to fetch the DTD; there might 
> be a problem in your analysis.

Right, due to the idiosyncratic nature of logging on W3C mirror, I 
hadn't noticed that the request for that custom DTD was logged 
elsewhere. It does get consistently fetched.

Thanks for your thoughts!
-- 
olivier