Re: setting dtd to validate against

Hello Steven,

I would suspect that the DOCTYPE declaration in your XML instance is still the only “standard” way to tell what DTD-style
declarations have to be used for validation.
You can, of course, derive your own factory/parser/handlers and define new SAX properties to allow DTD references outside the XML
instance.

Maybe the DOM Level 3 Abstract Schemas specification (Working Draft status) will provide a standard interface to “load a grammar”,
i.e. both DTDs and Schemas. At this point, as I read it, giving access to only part of the information a Schema can contain.
I'm not sure what should happen in case of conflict between the two -- I have asked the question some months ago in this list and I
didn't see any reply.

Enjoy your further exploration and best regards,

--
Jacques


Steven Corkey wrote:

> Inside of java one can decide what xsd to use in validating an xml file
> regardless of what the xml file things it's xsd file is
> through the properties:
>                         parser.setFeature
> ("http://xml.org/sax/features/validation", true);
>
> parser.setProperty("http://apache.org/xml/properties/schema/"
>                                         +
> "external-noNamespaceSchemaLocation",xsdFile);
>
> Is the same true of DTD files?
>
> I want to set the DTD file to use in validation like I can set the xsd
> file.
>
> Much appreciated

--
Jacques Deseyne
SWIFTAlliance WebStation Development Team
IT/Interfaces
S.W.I.F.T. SCRL
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