Re: [OpenJade-users] W3C Validator uses OpenSP and it can't download DTD's from behind a proxy

[Philip S. <ph...@se...>]

On May 7, 2008, at 9:51 PM, Steve Akins wrote:

> I'm trying to install and use W3C Validator which uses OpenSP.
>
> OpenSP needs Internet access to download DTD's.
>
> Unfortunately I only have access to the Internet via a proxy and when
> OpenSP tries to retrieve DTD's it fails.
>
> This has been posted in the past with no solution.
> There is also a feature request which was added a year ago but is
> still unassigned.
> Does this mean that it's unlikely it will be actioned or this code has
> gone stale?
>
> I'm hoping someone has figured out a way around this.

Hi Steve,
Are you aware that the W3C validator also comes with a catalog that  
you can install? It includes the common DTDs you're likely to run  
across and OpenSP will use the local catalog instead of downloading  
them.

http://validator.w3.org/sgml-lib.tar.gz

As referenced from here:
http://validator.w3.org/docs/install.html

HTH
Philip





>
> The DTD I'm referencing is XHTML 1.0 Strict.
>
> I don't know how the code works but there seems to be some concept  
> of catalogs.
>
> I tried adding
> PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" xhtml1-strict.dtd
> to html.soc but this did nothing.  I actually deleted this file and
> got the same result so it can't be referencing it.
>
> There is obviously more to it then just updating this catalog.
>
> Thanks for any help that is given.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
>
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