XML's DTD

Submitted by User Profilejeff on 6:49pm, Friday, 2004-10-08
I know we're not XML experts here, but does specifying a DTD such as: [code:1] [/code:1] Cause the application reading in the XML file to access the network and find the DTD file? I would think the answer is [b]Yes[/b] but this seems pretty stupid (or limiting, take your pick) to me (why would reading in a properties file require the app to access the internet?). Is the solution to save Sun's DTD locally and package (and then deploy) it with my application? Any good XML forums to post this question at? Thanks, Jeff
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At 8:11pm, Friday, 2004-10-08, User Profilejeff said:
Yeah it sounds like whoever's doing hte parsing has the responsibility to resolve the DTD's URI to [i]something[/i] (whether it means go fetch it or map it to something it knows internally, which Java's Properties class must do). In some ways it feels like cheating though...if it was changed online, obviously Java wouldn't "know" about it until the next Java release.
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