Dave Brosius <dbros...@baybroadband.net> wrote on 11/10/2009 08:30:37 AM:
> Thanks for the help... I realize now that i didn't understand what was > going on. The documents in question had DOCTYPEs for transitional etc. > But I was getting 503's because w3 rejects requests for these dtds. Yeah. Seems the W3C is getting fed up with the number of requests [1] which hit their site for these DTDs and other resources so they just block them sometimes. > So i now am caching them locally and using a DOM EntityResolver to provide > those directly,and now nbsp is defined. That's generally a good idea. > But i learned some new stuff > with this email exchange, and i appreciate the support. thanks. > > dave Thanks. [1] http://www.w3.org/blog/systeam/2008/02/08/w3c_s_excessive_dtd_traffic Michael Glavassevich XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: mrgla...@ca.ibm.com E-mail: mrgla...@apache.org