Re: XML files referencing DTDs via HTTP

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[Brian May]
> This seems to be an increasing problem lately, do I need to submit a
> seperate bug report for each package???
> 
> Referencing a DTD via HTTP won't work on computers with no Internet
> connection, or require HTTP queries go via a proxy HTTP server.

I believe XML processors are expected to keep a local map of URLs to
local files, to avoid having to fetch the files from the net.  having
the URLs in the document is _not_ a bug.  It is a design choice in
XML.