You can add the entity,

<!ENTITY nbsp "&#160;">

If you have control over the source. If not, it's neither xhtml nor xml, so
you need non-xml way.

I think xhtml.strict.dtd is built in your parser.

"xtreem" <invalid@h...> wrote in message
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> I am trying to parse some XHTML which apparently is XML compliant, using
the
> following bit of vbscript
>
> set xmlhttp = CreateObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP.4.0")
> set xmlDoc = CreateObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.4.0")
>
> xmlhttp.Open "GET", "http://www.audioscrobbler.com/", false
> xmlhttp.Send
>
> res = xmlhttp.responsetext
> xmldoc.validateonparse = false
> xmldoc.resolveexternals = false
>
> xmldoc.loadxml res
>
> If (xmlDoc.parseError.errorCode <> 0) Then
>    Dim myErr
>    Set myErr = xmlDoc.parseError
>    MsgBox(myerr.reason + "  " + myErr.srctext)
> end if
>
> But I keep getting the error:
> Reference to undefined entitiy 'nbsp'
>
> I have read about all sorts of solutions to this, but they typically
involve
> getting rid of nbsp in some way or another in the source. Is there a way
to
> solve it when you have no control over the source? ie. perhaps I could add
> the nbsp entity then append the xml somehow?
>
> Also, when I set 'resolveexternals' to true, I get an error about
> 'processing resource xhtml-strict.dtd' or something. The source document
> doesnt fully qualify the dtd to w3c.org, but is that necessary? It seems
> strange that w3c.org would be hit every single time an xml document is
> parsed...
>
> Thanks for any help :)
>
>