From: Phill Davies <binary011010@...>
Date: 2008-07-30T09:53:12+09:00
Subject: Re: libxml: is it possible not to use doctype declaration?

Whoops, those were supposed to be class variables. What you really want 
to do (I think) is more like:

LibXML::XML::Parser.default_load_external_dtd = false
LibXML::XML::Parser.default_validity_checking = false

And then:
parser = LibXML::XML::Parser.file(<file>)
doc = parser.parse

That seems to work with your example.

Phill Davies wrote:
> To start, the rdoc documentation can be found at 
> http://libxml.rubyforge.org/rdoc/index.html. Now I don't know this for 
> sure, but
>
> <!DOCTYPE test PUBLIC "-//FARAWAY//DTD-verweg//NL" 
> "http://some.site.nl/dtd/test.dtd">
>
> doesn't look like a real doctype definition, so if you can pull it out 
> of your xml (by hand, not programmatically) before trying to parse it, 
> I'd say that would be a good idea. That being said, there are two 
> attributes of the XML::Parser class that look like they may be of 
> interest: default_load_external_dtd and default_validity_checking. Try 
> setting both of those to false, unless you have a real dtd to validate 
> against and the example above was fake. Of course, since this is using 
> XML::Parser instead of XML::Document I think you would need to do 
> e.g.: parser = XML::Parser.file(<file>)
> parser.default_load_external_dtd = false
> parser.default_validity_checking = false
> doc = parser.parse
>
> ... and then go from there.
> Phill D.
>
> Phlip wrote:
>> ruud grosmann wrote:
>>
>>> Is using libxml the right thing to do to, or are there smarter 
>>> alternatives?
>>
>> Libxml-ruby is the most complete & accurate parser of the big three 
>> (REXML, Libxml-ruby, and Hpricot), and its documentation can be very 
>> challenging. How much of the original C Libxml documentation have you 
>> been able to read?
>>
>>
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