Re: Specifying a DTD for a DOMDocument

On Oct 23, 2:34 pm, bmic...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Oct 23, 3:13 pm, ZeldorBlat <zeldorb...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:





On Oct 23, 5:22 am, bmic...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Hey,

I'd like to specify the DTD file for a DOMDocument on creation; so I
can validate it.
The DTD file already exists (let's call it content.dtd)

$dom = new DOMDocument('1.0', 'utf-8');
// Do something here to link cotnent.dtd to the DOMDocument. How do I
do that?

// Form the xml document.
$dom->createElement('root_node');
...

I found through the php documentation that I can validate xml content
against a DTD if load the XML file (but not if I create it). Something
like that (assuming the xml content is in file content.xml which
specifies *<!DOCTYPE root_node SYSTEM "content.dtd">*):

$dom = new DOMDocument;
$dom->Load('content.xml');
if ($dom->validate()) {
// document is valid

}

See this:

<http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.dom-domimplementation-
createdocumenttype.php>

I tried this approach. The xml content is now formatted the way I want
to.
The problem though is that $dom->validate() is returning false
although the xml content is valid with respect to the DTD.
Seems that the validate() function only works when loading xml files.
Any thoughts?- Hide quoted text -

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load your dtd in a browser with the xml file. basic but works fast

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