sax EntityResolver problem (expat?)

chris · Jun 10, 2004

hi,
sax beginner question i must admit:

i try to filter a simple XHTML document with a standard DTD declaration
(<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">) in it.
sax gives the following error

which is an   entity.
so i thought i just implement the EntityResolver class and use a local
copy of the DTD

# ========================
class XHTMLResolver(xml.sax.handler.EntityResolver, object):

def resolveEntity(self, publicId, systemId):
return 'http://localhost/xhtml1-transitional.dtd'

reader = xml.sax.make_parser()
reader.setEntityResolver(XHTMLResolver())
# ========================

problem is, it seems expat does not use this resolver as i get the same
error again. i also tried the following, which is not supported anyhow:

reader.setFeature('http://xml.org/sax/features/external-parameter-entities',
True)external parameter entities

is the XHTMLResolver class not the way it should be? or do i have to set
another feature/property?

ultimately i do not want to use the http://localhost copy but i would
like to read the local file (just with open(...) or something) and go
from there. is that possible? do i have to

thanks a lot
chris

Ralf Schmitt · Jun 11, 2004

chris said:
hi,
sax beginner question i must admit:

i try to filter a simple XHTML document with a standard DTD
declaration (<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0
Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">) in it.
sax gives the following error

which is an   entity.
so i thought i just implement the EntityResolver class and use a local
copy of the DTD

# ========================
class XHTMLResolver(xml.sax.handler.EntityResolver, object):

def resolveEntity(self, publicId, systemId):
return 'http://localhost/xhtml1-transitional.dtd'

reader = xml.sax.make_parser()
reader.setEntityResolver(XHTMLResolver())
# ========================

problem is, it seems expat does not use this resolver as i get the
same error again. i also tried the following, which is not supported
anyhow:

reader.setFeature('http://xml.org/sax/features/external-parameter-entities',
True)
external parameter entities

is the XHTMLResolver class not the way it should be? or do i have to
set another feature/property?

That's the way it works for me. You can also just open() your dtd'
files and return an open file handle. Note that when using the above
dtd your resolveEntity will be called more than once with different id's.

--------------------------------
from xml.sax import saxutils, handler, make_parser, xmlreader
class Handler(handler.ContentHandler):
def resolveEntity(self, publicid, systemid):
print "RESOLVE:", publicid, systemid

return open(systemid[systemid.rfind('/')+1:], "rb")
def characters(self, s):
print repr(s)

doc = r'''<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<HTML>
 ä
</HTML>
'''

h = Handler()
parser = make_parser()
parser.setContentHandler(h)
parser.setEntityResolver(h)

parser.feed(doc)
parser.close()
-------
Output:

RESOLVE: -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd
RESOLVE: -//W3C//ENTITIES Latin 1 for XHTML//EN xhtml-lat1.ent
RESOLVE: -//W3C//ENTITIES Symbols for XHTML//EN xhtml-symbol.ent
RESOLVE: -//W3C//ENTITIES Special for XHTML//EN xhtml-special.ent
u'\n'
u'\xa0'
u'\xe4'
u'\n'

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