[xep-support] Re: SVG graphic goes missing

Dave Pawson dave.pawson at gmail.com
Tue Nov 16 10:32:34 PST 2010


On 16 November 2010 17:57, Mark Giffin <mgiffin at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Thanks Dave, yes I am going to be using XML catalogs more.  But isn't it the
> default when running XEP (or probably the Sax parser under XEP) for it to
> try to access the URL in the SVG (or other W3C DTD)? If the W3C server no
> longer responds to this default check, then this is a basic level of
> broken-ness that would have to be fixed out of the box one way or another..
> Not to pick on XEP, I think it's a good product. Other tools will be broken
> by this as well.
>
> Mark


This has been happening with DTDs for years.
The catalog resolver gets round this, by telling the parser
to use the catalog, sort of indirection to get the DTD?
You just redirect it to the DTD on your disk.

HTH



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