Hello.

I have a silly XML file and a silly DTD called http://foo/bar/a.xml
and http://foo/bar/a.dtd respectively. They can be validated with
http://validator.w3.org/.

a.xml is as below.
<!DOCTYPE a SYSTEM "http://foo/bar/a.dtd">
<a/>

a.dtd is as below.
<!ELEMENT a EMPTY>

But when I modified "http://foo/bar/a.dtd" to "a.dtd" and validated
them again, I was told 'Fatal Error: cannot find "a.dtd"; tried.'

I think I just used relative URI instead of absolute one where
SystemLiteral was expected. What was wrong?

Thank you.

Did you upload the file? If so, it doesn't know the document base. If not,
don't know. The relative URI should be fine.

Bob Foster

"Kiwi" <kiwi@s05.itscom.net> wrote in message
news:dc95c98e.0309150024.1cf3c51b@posting.google.c om...[color=blue]
> Hello.
>
> I have a silly XML file and a silly DTD called http://foo/bar/a.xml
> and http://foo/bar/a.dtd respectively. They can be validated with
> http://validator.w3.org/.
>
> a.xml is as below.
> <!DOCTYPE a SYSTEM "http://foo/bar/a.dtd">
> <a/>
>
> a.dtd is as below.
> <!ELEMENT a EMPTY>
>
> But when I modified "http://foo/bar/a.dtd" to "a.dtd" and validated
> them again, I was told 'Fatal Error: cannot find "a.dtd"; tried.'
>
> I think I just used relative URI instead of absolute one where
> SystemLiteral was expected. What was wrong?
>
> Thank you.[/color]

Kiwi wrote:
[color=blue]
>Hello.
>
>I have a silly XML file and a silly DTD called http://foo/bar/a.xml
>and http://foo/bar/a.dtd respectively. They can be validated with
>http://validator.w3.org/.
>[/color]
These files are at http://foo ?
There's no such thing as http://foo - if there was foo would be a top
level domain, and it's not. Unless there's some server trick here I'm
missing?

- Rob