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

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