[MarkLogic Dev General] Loading an xml document referencingexternally defined entities

[Lee, David]

Thanks for the advise.

I dont have the ability to manually edit documents (there's actually
legal/contract issues involved)

But I can "pre processes" them to resolve entity references.

I was sort of hoping something as big as ML would handle this correctly
but I can work around it.

 

-David

 

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David A. Lee

Senior Principal Software Engineer

Epocrates, Inc.

dlee at epocrates.com

812-482-5224

 

 

 

 

 

From: general-bounces at developer.marklogic.com
[mailto:general-bounces at developer.marklogic.com] On Behalf Of Vidhya
Parthasarathy
Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 10:52 AM
To: General Mark Logic Developer Discussion
Subject: RE: [MarkLogic Dev General] Loading an xml document
referencingexternally defined entities

 

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

 

 

 

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