From: Phlip <phlip2005@...>
Date: 2008-07-29T23:14:32+09:00
Subject: Re: libxml: is it possible not to use doctype declaration?

ruud grosmann wrote:

> This works fine, but not if the document contains a doctype
> declaration with a system identifier. For some reason, libxml tries to
> resolve it. Leading to significant performances issues.

If the doctype is an HTML, open the document like this:

     xp = XML::HTMLParser.new()
     xp.string = xhtml
     XML::Parser.default_pedantic_parser = false
     doc = xp.parse

My assertxpath gem shows how, in the method assert_libxml.

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   Phlip