[Expat-discuss] undefined entity - how can i fix it ?

[Golibasku]

After reading the reference.html many times, I still don;t know how to use 
the DTD file. I have the following problems.
1. After calling XML_UseForeignDTD(...), the special characters is removed. 
They will not appear in parameter of my handlers.
2. When will expat use the DTD file ? How can I pass the DTD file to expat ?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karl Waclawek" <karl at waclawek.net>
To: "Golibasku" <ceo at absoft-net.com>; <expat-discuss at libexpat.org>
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 1:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Expat-discuss] undefined entity - how can i fix it ?


> To add to the preceding discussion: I did a little googling, and found
> that there is a DTD for RSS defined - search for "RSS DTD 0.91".
>
> Strictly speaking, your document should have a Doctype declaration
> pointing to that DTD. Since it does not, you can still apply the DTD
> (one you have downloaded it) to that document by using the
> XML_UseForeignDTD() API in Expat, which is documented in reference.html.
>
> Karl
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Golibasku" <ceo at absoft-net.com>
> To: <expat-discuss at libexpat.org>
> Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 12:30 AM
> Subject: Re: [Expat-discuss] undefined entity - how can i fix it ?
>
>
>> Are you sure ? all the RSS in the Internet don't have DTD declared in the 
>> xml file (internal / external). But all the xml parser (of course the 
>> parser don't have critical bugs) can parse them without error. I think 
>> well-formed XML document doesn't need to have a DTD. A "VALID" XML 
>> document need to have DTD.
>>
>> But anyway, I am not a student or teacher. I am not teaching XML 101. 
>> That's why I don't want to argue on the definition problem. I only need 
>> to write a program to parse the xml file. Is there any example in expat 
>> which show how to parse such XML document.?
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Karl Waclawek" <karl at waclawek.net>
>> To: "Golibasku" <ceo at absoft-net.com>; <expat-discuss at libexpat.org>
>> Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 1:12 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Expat-discuss] undefined entity - how can i fix it ?
>>
>>
>>> If your file does not have a DTD then obviously it is missing
>>> the entity declaration and is therefore not well-formed.
>>> This means - strictly speaking - it does not conform
>>> to the definition of an XML document, and no conforming
>>> parser will accept it.
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Golibasku" <ceo at absoft-net.com>
>>> To: <expat-discuss at libexpat.org>
>>> Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2004 11:13 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Expat-discuss] undefined entity - how can i fix it ?
>>>
>>>
>>>> Can you give me more information ? My XML don't have any DTD, i just 
>>>> want to use expat to get the content from it.
>>>>
>>>>> Did you declare this entity in the DTD?
>>>>> If not, that is what you need to do, since in XML there are only
>>>>> very few predefined entities.
>>>>>
>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>>>> Subject: [Expat-discuss] undefined entity - how can i fix it ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>>    in my xml document, there is a line which contains "&copy;" - no 
>>>>> quote. Expat told me "undefined entity at line ...". It is the 
>>>>> copyright symbol. How can i parse the document successfully ?
>>>>
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