Re: Fall back to network DTD if local one not found

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John Brown <>
Date
2008-03-21T17:46:08+00:00
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Re: Fall back to network DTD if local one not found
Bob Stayton <bobs <at> sagehill.net> writes:

> 
> I think the catalog resolver is functioning properly, but you can question 
> the behavior of xmllint.
> 

Glad to hear that I was not doing something wrong.

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> As another data point, I tried Saxon which uses the Java catalog resolver 
> (resolver.jar).  When Saxon encounters the bad catalog entry, it seems to 
> fall back to the original URI, which is what you want.
> 

Perhaps you could update your tutorial to point out this difference between
xmllint and Saxon in this regard?