[lxml-dev] Validation against an external DTD

[Michael Guntsche]

On Feb 6, 2007, at 9:52 PM, Lee Brown wrote:


>
> class XMLParser(_BaseParser)
>  |  The XML parser.  Parsers can be supplied as additional argument to
>  |  various parse functions of the lxml API.  A default parser is  
> always
>  |  available and can be replaced by a call to the global function
>  |  'set_default_parser'.  New parsers can be created at any time  
> without a
>  |  major run-time overhead.

I had a look at this as well, but I do not understand, how I specify  
the DTD that should be used for validation. I unterstand that the  
Parser validates against a DTD if it is specified in the XML file and  
found by the parser during execution. But in my case I need something  
like this

PyXML example:

dtd = xmldtd.load_dtd("my dtd file")
parser = xmlproc.XMLProcessor()
parser.set_application(xmlval.ValidationApp(dtd, parser))
....
parser.parse_file("my xml file that needs to be validated")


Kind regards,
Michael