Re: XML files referencing DTDs via HTTP

[Roger Leigh <roger@whinlatter.uklinux.net>]

Steve Langasek <vorlon@netexpress.net> writes:

[DTD validation]
> These delays have happened to me repeatedly at package configuration
> time on systems that *do* have interfaces up, and which don't require
> proxies to reach the Internet.  The non-functionality of the URLs was
> not a result of my local system configuration; presumably, the sites
> that were supposed to be hosting the DTDs were down.

AFAIK, the URL doesn't even have to exist--it is only required to be
unique, at least from what I've read about XML Schemas.  (I'm not an
XML guru, though.)


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