jdownie <jdow...@gmail.com> writes: > I'm trying to get xml.sax to interpret a file that begins with… > > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http:// > www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> > > After a while I get... > > http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd:31:2: error in processing > external entity reference > > …although… > > time curl http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd > [works]
You're mistaken. There is no problem fetching the file, but there is a problem while parsing the file (at line 31, where you find a comment in an entity declaration, which is not acceptable in XML). You're trying to use HTML's SGML DTD in a XML document. Direct your doctype to XHTML's DTD, and everything will be fine (hopefully). BTW, your installation will probably let you use a locally cached copy of the DTD, instead of fetching a file at every parse. How this works depends somehow on the parser you use. -- Alain. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
