Hi,

I'll try to describe the problem on a simple example. Suppose what we have 
the following XML file:

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?>
  <!DOCTYPE somedoctype SYSTEM "http://www.someserver.com/    
    somedoctype.dtd">
  <root>
  </root>

Also suppose the syntax of the file is valid according to 
http://www.someserver.com/somedoctype.dtd.

I tried to load this file using MSXML (I tried with all versions of the 
parser from 2.6 to 6.0) as shown below:

  //XmlDoc: IXMLDOMDocument2;
  XmlDoc.validateOnParse := True;
  XmlDoc.resolveExternals := True;
  XmlDoc.setProperty('ProhibitDTD', False);
  XmlDoc.async := True;
  XmlDoc.load(FileName);
  while True do
    if XmlDoc.readyState = 4 then
    begin
      if XmlDoc.parseError.errorCode <> 0 then
        raise Exception.Create('Error.')
      else
        Break;
    end;

The question is the XmlDoc.readyState is always equal to 3 i.e. the document 
is always in the "loading" state (state "4" means the document has been 
loaded).

The problem will occur only if DOCTYPE's declaration contains URL. And if I 
download the "http://www.someserver.com/somedoctype.dtd" file, store it on my 
hard drive to, for example, "C:\Somepath\somedoctype.dtd" and use the 
following DOCTYPE declaration:

  <!DOCTYPE somedoctype SYSTEM "C:\Somepath\somedoctype.dtd">

then all will work ok.

Does anyone know anything about this problem? Or maybe I do something wrong?

Thanks in advance