value error when parsing XML

From: Ajay Brar (abra9823_at_mail.usyd.edu.au)
Date: 07/31/04 

Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 20:20:39 +1000
To: python-list@python.org

hi!

i get a value error when parsing an xml file. This is because it can't
find the DTD -
ValueError: unknown url type: ../um_xml/um.dtd

 From what i have discovered in the archives, this happens when your XML
and DTD file are not in your current directory
i have the directory structure
home
      user - this is where i am running the script from
      um_xml- this is where the xml and dtd are

can someone please tell me how i can workaround this problem. the script
executes fine when the xml and dtd files are in user/. But i don't
really want to put them there.
any ideas?

thanks

cheers 

-- 
Ajay Brar

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