prashant

• Aug 24th, 2005

 

the document is not parsed.

sloth_ll

• Aug 22nd, 2006

 

Everything should be fine.  DTD is used for validation, parsing doesn't require DTD or schema.

Mathan

• Oct 18th, 2006

 

The Parser will not be able to parse the XML file without the DTD and will throw a file not found  exception.

mrbandersnatch

 Profile Answers by mrbandersnatch 

• Jan 11th, 2007

 

Sloth_II is correct - although of course it depends on the parser being non-validating or configurable as such.

bowler

 Profile Answers by bowler 

• Feb 5th, 2007

 

DTD is optional

Mallikarjun

• Jul 13th, 2007

 

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)