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When a XML file has a DTD declared which is not accessible to the parser, what would happen?

  
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August 24, 2005 05:38:50   #1  
prashant        
RE: When a XML file has a DTD declared which is not accessible to the parser, what would happen?
the document is not parsed.
 
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August 22, 2006 22:14:06   #2  
sloth_ll        
RE: When a XML file has a DTD declared which is not ac...
Everything should be fine. DTD is used for validation parsing doesn't require DTD or schema.
 
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October 18, 2006 01:54:38   #3  
Mathan        
RE: When a XML file has a DTD declared which is not ac...
The Parser will not be able to parse the XML file without the DTD and will throw a file not found exception.
 
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January 11, 2007 19:52:54   #4  
mrbandersnatch Member Since: January 2007   Contribution: 2    
RE: When a XML file has a DTD declared which is not ac...
Sloth_II is correct - although of course it depends on the parser being non-validating or configurable as such.

 
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February 05, 2007 10:47:05   #5  
bowler Member Since: January 2007   Contribution: 1    
RE: When a XML file has a DTD declared which is not ac...
DTD is optional
 
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July 13, 2007 08:00:05   #6  
Mallikarjun        
RE: When a XML file has a DTD declared which is not ac...
DTD is must. if the file is not found at location specified you will get following error
java.io.FileNotFoundException: ....AddrBook.dtd (The system cannot find
the file specified)
at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.fatal(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.externalParameterEntity(Unknown Sou
rce)
at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.maybeDoctypeDecl(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.parseInternal(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.crimson.parser.XMLReaderImpl.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.crimson.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(Unknown Source)
at javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder.parse(Unknown Source)
at XMLInfo.main(XMLInfo.java:18)
 
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