[MarkLogic Dev General] Loading an xml document referencing externally defined entities

[Vidhya Parthasarathy]

David,

You are right any external references is not checked by marklogic. You have to appended the xml file with doctype declaration

try adding this to you xml file before insertion

<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//DUMMY//DTD dummy DTD//EN" [
<!ENTITY ldquo  "&#8220;" >
]>

Vidhya


From: general-bounces at developer.marklogic.com [mailto:general-bounces at developer.marklogic.com] On Behalf Of Lee, David
Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 10:42
To: general at developer.marklogic.com
Subject: [MarkLogic Dev General] Loading an xml document referencing externally defined entities


I'm trying to load an XML document using the XCC library which has reference to entities defined seperately in a .ent file.
The document header has a DTD reference

--- xml doc

<!DOCTYPE TOPIC SYSTEM "lww-five-minute.dtd"[]>



Inside lww-five-minute.dtd is an external entity reference

--- dtd doc

<!ENTITY % xmlspecchars-integrated.ent      PUBLIC
"-//LWW//DTD XML Special Characters Module v4.0 20050408//EN"
"xmlspecchars-integrated.ent"                                        >
%xmlspecchars-integrated.ent;
---------

Then inside xmlspecchars-integrated.ent is entity definitions
e.g.
<!ENTITY ldquo  "&#8220;" >  <!--=double quotation mark, left, U+201C-->


When I try to load the document using Session.insertContent() I get the following error:


com.marklogic.xcc.exceptions.XQueryException: XDMP-DOCENTITYREF: Invalid entity reference "ldquo" at new5mcc.xml line 28635

in /insert



I've tried putting the dtd and ent files onto the ML server but no avail.

If I pre-parse the XML with some other XML tool which resolves the entities then put *that* file to ML it works fine.

Any suggestions on how to load an xml document which uses external entity definitions ?

thanks

 ----------------------------------------
David A. Lee
Senior member of the technical staff
Epocrates, Inc.
dlee at epocrates.com<mailto:dlee at epocrates.com>





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