[lxml-dev] Validating against an external DTD

[Stefan Behnel]

Hi,

Michael Guntsche wrote:
> I just noticed that lxml has DTD-validation against external DTDs now  
> in trunk YAAAAAAAAAAYYY. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

:)


> I played around a little bit with it and noticed that assertValid is  
> not working correctly.

Ah, what?

  >>> root = etree.XML("<b><a/></b>")
  >>> dtd = etree.DTD(StringIO("<!ELEMENT b EMPTY>"))
  >>> dtd.assertValid(root)
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
    File "etree.pyx", line 1885, in etree._Validator.assertValid
  etree.DocumentInvalid: Document does not comply with schema

The docstring of assertValid() says:

 "Raises DocumentInvalid if the document does not comply with the schema."

So, how's that not working? Or were you expecting it to behave like
"dtd.assert_()"?

Stefan