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Problem validating with DTD from within web app

 
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Hi all,
I am accessing information configured in an XML file using DOM (in a web application).

I have created a DTD to validate the XML file.
I have put the DTD in the /WEB-INF directory of my web app.

The code that parses the xml from within my web app is not able to locate the DTD during validation.

When I specify the location of the DTD on my file syste e.g. C:\myDTD.dtd, the app is able to locate it but when the location is /WEB-INF/myDTD.dtd, it is not able to.

I have the following questions:
1. How can I specify in my DOCTYPE that the DTD is located in the WEB-INF directory?
2. Do I need to do anything specific in the code to make the DTD availible to the xml processing code in the web app?

Thanks in advance for the help.
 
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You can get the DOCTYPE in the XML file any way you can. I recommend Notepad. As for #2 -- you need to write yourself an EntityResolver. Check out the API docs for more information on that one.
 
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I have the same problem, if I have a DTD mydefn.dtd

And withing XML file I reference it in XML file as follows

<!DOCTYPE mydefn SYSTEM "dtd/mydefn.dtd">

1) In case of a Java Application, if I place the mydefn.dtd in dtd folder at the root of my application. It works.

2) In case of a Java Web Application it tries to look for mydefn.dtd in bin directory of Tomcat

.....\jakarta-tomcat-5.5.7\bin\dtd\module-config.dtd

What steps to I need to take in my web application to teach it to looking into a some location under the deployment directory ??
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