From: ruud grosmann <r.grosmann@...>
Date: 2008-07-29T23:44:36+09:00
Subject: Re: libxml: is it possible not to use doctype declaration?

hi Phlip,

thanks for the suggestion. The document is not an HTML document. It is
an XML document. It is something like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE test PUBLIC "-//FARAWAY//DTD-verweg//NL"
"http://some.site.nl/dtd/test.dtd">
<test>
<p>this is a test</p>
</test>

I don't want XML::Document to resolve the URL and waiting for a
timeout. I couldn't find anything in the documentation on this.

regards, Ruud



On 29/07/2008, Phlip <phlip2005@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
>    Phlip
>
>