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From: richard@------.--.--.-- (------- -----)
To: NULL
Date: 8/2/2007 11:41:00 AM

In article <-tidnfRJBenfiizbnZ2dnUVZ_tmhnZ2d@c...>,
Joe Kesselman  <keshlam-nospam@c...> wrote:

>> I have a question regarding DTD and XML, is there any way to stop the
>> parser in parsing the XML file if the DTD is not specified in the
>> Doctype of the XML file and also throw an error ? I am using java by
>> the way any help is greatly appreciated.

>If the DTD is not specified by the document type, validation is not 
>performed and parsing runs normally.

But presumably the "invalid" indicator will be set (whatever that is
for the parser in question), so if you want to reject invalid documents
are well as ones without a DTD you can use that.

-- Richard
-- 
"Consideration shall be given to the need for as many as 32 characters
in some alphabets" - X3.4, 1963.

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