How to ignore the <!DOCTYPE> part when parsing an XML file

[Johann LEGAYE]

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to parse XML files with this kind of code :

  parse-xml:parse("<from1>Jani</from1><from2>Jani</from2><from3>Jani</from3>",
     <opt:options>
       <opt:base-uri opt:value="urn:test"/>
       <opt:parse-external-parsed-entity/>
     </opt:options>

But when the XML file contains at the top a <!DOCTYPE> part, I get an internal error :
dynamic error [err:FODC0006]: in valid content passed to parse-xml:parse(): loader parsing error: internal error

How to ignore this <!DOCTYPE> part when parsing ?

Thanks for your help,

Johann

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[William Candillon]

Hello Johann,

Thanks for raising this issue.

At the moment xml:parse() only accepts XML external entities as an input.

We're currently looking at a resolution for this bug.

Is there a workaround you can use in the meantime?

Kind regards,

William

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[Chris Hillery]

Nicolae gave a slightly longer answer to this question on the original
zorba-users mailing list, which I will copy here for reference:

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While the error you receive is not very useful -- and we'll improve it
-- the reason you are getting it is that the option <opt:parse-
external-parsed-entity/> requries the input to be a well-formed
external parsed entity, and that does not allow for DOCTYPE
declarations.

But I agree that skipping such declarations would be useful and we
will add an option to do exactly that. In the mean time you can either
omit the <opt:parse-external-parsed-entity/> option or alternatively
remove the first line of the input, for example with the help of the
read-text() function from the File module (see the documentation here:
http://www.zorba-xquery.com/html/modules/expath/file#read-text-1 ).
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Ceej
aka Chris Hillery