Validating XML with schema plus entities (cake and eat it too)

["Fitzharris, Walter M. (LNG-DAY)" <Wa...@lexisnexis.com>]

> I can get the parser to use the schema , but if I uncomment the entities
> lines (see instance doc below), the parser gets confused by them.  If I
> leave them commented out, the parser doesn't get the definition of the
> entities in the instance doc and croaks when it hits the first entity ref.
> 
> 
My only solution so far is to "preprocess" the instance file with a perl
script and replace entities in it before the parser ever sees it.      

> Can I make the parser read the entity defs in directly from the file?  Or
> is there a way to tell the parser that the DOCTYPE prolog is not really
> the DTD definition, to please ignore it except for the entity defs, and
> use the XSD to validate?
> 
> Here's a sample xml instance  :
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <!--DOCTYPE document 
>     [
> 	<!ENTITY foo "my good">
> 	<!ENTITY % ents SYSTEM "my_entity_defs.ent">
> 	%ents; 
>     ]-->
> <document xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
> xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="foo.xsd">
> 	<page>Sammy &mdash; &foo; dog</page>
> </document>
> 
> Walt Fitzharris
> Lexis Nexis
> 937-865-6800 X54641
> 

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