Provide a means to set a dtd via ValidationSet publicId or systemId

[rosslamont]

In release 1.0.1, setting these was silently ignored (which was itself technically a bug - see issue #46 for some background). In release 1.0.2 these cause an error because the default schema language is XSD.

Unfortunately its not possible at this time to apply a DTD to an arbitrary XML document as JAXP doesn't provide a means to do this. Research is been done on this as part of Java XML Validation Collection

[jochenw]

I think, this issues scope is too far. My suggestion would be, like follows:

1. As an alternative to publicId, and systemId, provide a boolean attribute "usingDtd".
2. If this attribute is true, then turn "validating" on upon creation of the XML parser. As a side effect, this enforces presence of a DTD declaration, but I think we can live with that.

[rosslamont]

Hi Jochen,

Regarding the scope, I put this in as a place holder for later work, I've updated the issue to mark it as an enhancement request and I'm not putting a milestone against it until I do further work on my own validation projects. So its more of a long term aspiration.

Regarding your points 1 and 2, I think the plugin already does these. As I understand it and as discussed in issue #46, the "validating" boolean works the same as your suggested "usingDtd". Issue #47 talks about improving the documentation to make this more clear.

[jochenw]

Ross, this is almost two years old. Do you still see an issue here?