From: carp __ <carp@...>
Date: 2007-04-25T19:01:54+09:00
Subject: Re: REXML + DTD example

Clifford Heath wrote:

> RexML can't do external DTDs, and the author told me it won't ever,
> as he believes that the syntax is too evil to even contemplate.
> 
> When I needed to do it, on Windows systems having cygwin installed,
> I just opened the XML file using a pipe from xmllint, which was
> launched with the right parameters to make it expand the entities
> from an external DTD. The main awkwardness comes from the fact that
> xmllint looks for unqualified DTD files in the same directory as
> the XML file, so you need to extract the directory pathname from
> the file's basename and cd to that directory first:
> 
> cmd = "sh -c 'cd #{dir}; xmllint --loaddtd --noent - <#{base}'"
> infile = popen(cmd)
> 

Thanks for that hint, Clifford. I did it with xmllint now - a bit ugly 
as it makes the script less portable, but well ... better than nothing I 
guess. Thanks again!

-carp

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