Hi. I need to write xml export that will be used by another
application. That application requires that I add a doctype
delcaration to the document, referencing a certain dtd file. I do not
have the file, and don't really need the declaration myself, it will
be used when the document is read I suppose; how do I get around
"Couldn't find file" excepption thrown by CreateDocumentType?

So far I resorted to building the document without doctype, copying it
to string and injecting the declaration string into it; is there a way
to avoid this?

Sergei Shelukhin wrote:
XML parsers, even non validating ones still must check is DTD file exists.
You can either have dummy DTD file or handle DTD file resolving yourself.

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Sergei Shelukhin wrote:
Have you tried to use XmlWriter and WriteDocType instead to create your XML?
The following example

using (XmlWriter xmlWriter = XmlWriter.Create("Output.xml"))
{
xmlWriter.WriteStartDocument();
xmlWriter.WriteDocType("root", null, "foo.dtd", null);
xmlWriter.WriteElementString("root", "example");
xmlWriter.WriteEndDocument();
}

does not cause any exceptions for me although "foo.dtd" does not exist.



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Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
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