in reply to Re: Caching Entities with XML::LibXML
in thread Caching Entities with XML::LibXML

I'm not doing any validation. Getting the entities is required for parsing. Preventing the fetching of the remote DTD without adding something in its place prevents parsing.
use strict; use warnings; use XML::LibXML qw( ); my $parser = XML::LibXML->new( load_ext_dtd => 0, ); my $xhtml = <<'__EOI__'; <?xml version="1.0" ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Test</title> </head> <body>&nbsp;</body> </html> __EOI__ $parser->parse_string($xhtml);
:8: parser error : Entity 'nbsp' not defined <body>&nbsp;</body> ^