Re: [xsl] Stopping Saxon searching for an external DTD

[jim smith <jim at xoo dot co dot uk>]

Answering my own question:

I've read through the relevant bits of the Saxon and SAX source (not 
something someone with < 2 months Java experience should do - i've 
got a funny pain in my right eye now) and it turns out it's the way 
the SAX interface is implemented. SAX demands that Public/System IDs 
are resolved (but not downloaded) which obviosuly doesn't happen 
without a TCP/IP connection to DNS server. All I have to do is find 
out where it's called in Saxon and turn it off...

j




>(this is probably related to: [xsl] must be a trivial problem)
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>
>I'm writing a simple fragment of XSL to process Moreover news files. 
>I'm using Saxon 5.5 through JBindery on a Mac at the moment, but it 
>will eventually move to 5.5 running on an NT machine.
>
>I want to grab the news every 30 minutes or so, process it and cache 
>it, to reduce server load. I'm at home at the moment, on a dialup, 
>and I notice that attempting to transform the moreover file, which 
>begins with the DOCTYPE declaration
>
><!DOCTYPE moreovernews SYSTEM 
>"http://p.moreover.com/xml_dtds/moreovernews.dtd">
>
>fails when I'm offline, but not when I'm online.
>
>I'm not actually clear what's going on here. Is Saxon actually 
>attempting to grab the DTD or is Java having a problem because it 
>thinks the URL should be resolved before proceeding? (In which case, 
>why doesn't it crash like a normal Java app on a Mac...)
>
>Or is it something else?
>
>As I'm confident that Moreover files are valid, and my XSL doesn't 
>care, is there any way to turn this feature off?
>
>j
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