DTD and XmlReaderSettings

[pawel.pabich]

Hajo,

I want to validate xml against DTD but I am not able to load DTD
schema.
My code looks like that:

XmlReaderSettings settings = new XmlReaderSettings();
settings.ProhibitDtd = false;
settings.ValidationType = ValidationType.DTD;
settings.ValidationEventHandler += new
ValidationEventHandler(ValidationCallBack);
settings.Schemas.Add(null,@"C:\application.dtd");

and I at last line I always get this error:

'ELEMENT' is an unexpected token. The expected token is 'DOCTYPE'. Line
38, position 3.

Below I enclose 38th line of DTD.
<!ELEMENT eu-application:applicationform (
declaration
, application
, maa-particulars
, scientific-advice
, paediatric-program
, other-maa
, annexed-documents
)>

But DTD should be ok because XMLSpy says that is well-formed. Any idea
what it is wrong?
thanks in advance

Pawel Pabich

[pawel.pabich]

I would like to add that I can not use <!Doctype> in xml because XML
schema can not be wrtitten to hard drive. It has to be supplied from
memory.

Pawel

[Priya Lakshminarayanan [MSFT]]

XmlReaderSettings.Schemas property returns an XmlSchemaSet object that can
only accept W3C XML Schema and not DTDs.
If you have a DTD file, you should either specify the DTD as an internal
subset in the xml file itself or provide the dtd file name at the beginning
of your xml file.

<!DOCTYPE Root SYSTEM "application.dtd">
<Root>
<Content>
....
</Content>
</Root>

Or

<!DOCTYPE Root [
<!ELEMENT Content ANY>
]>
<Root>
<Content>
....
</Content>
</Root>
-Priya

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Hajo,

I want to validate xml against DTD but I am not able to load DTD
schema.
My code looks like that:

XmlReaderSettings settings = new XmlReaderSettings();
settings.ProhibitDtd = false;
settings.ValidationType = ValidationType.DTD;
settings.ValidationEventHandler += new
ValidationEventHandler(ValidationCallBack);
settings.Schemas.Add(null,@"C:\application.dtd");

and I at last line I always get this error:

'ELEMENT' is an unexpected token. The expected token is 'DOCTYPE'. Line
38, position 3.

Below I enclose 38th line of DTD.
<!ELEMENT eu-application:applicationform (
declaration
, application
, maa-particulars
, scientific-advice
, paediatric-program
, other-maa
, annexed-documents
)>

But DTD should be ok because XMLSpy says that is well-formed. Any idea
what it is wrong?
thanks in advance

Pawel Pabich