olaloux,

many thanks for your reply, your example was complete, but it is not quite what i asked for, the xml i am processing will not have the dtd definition i must specify with Libxml what one to use.

hence if you change your input xml to:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<countrieslist>
 <countries count="2">
   <country id="1234">
     <name>
       <en>Italy</en>
       <fr>Italie</fr>
     </name>
   </country>
   <country id="7890">
     <name>
       <en>Spain</en>
       <fr>Espagne</fr>
     </name>
   </country>
 </countries>
</countrieslist>

how do i get libxml to parse it then?

many thanks
Peewee

Oki doki!

# Here is the code, the XML does not contain DTD

use strict;
use XML::LibXML;
use IO::Handle;

# Load the DTD
my $dtd=XML::LibXML::Dtd->new("SOME // Public / ID / 1.0","countrieslist.dtd"); # Public part can stay empty ;-)
# Let's start the parsing
my $document=XML::LibXML->new->parse_file("countrieslist.xml");
eval {
  $document->validate($dtd);
}
if ($@ eq '') { # The $@ could contain the error
  print "XML valid.\n";
} else {
  print "XML not valid 'cause of $@ !\n";
}

In my sample, you can erase the line "use IO::Handle", it stay from previous code ;-)

olaloux,

what does this mean? and what is a more sensible value for it, can you provide some examples of what they could be:

"SOME // Public / ID / 1.0"

many thanks
Peewee

Sorry, I never found any explanation about this parameter.  This is the value given as sample on the module synopsis at CPAN.  I seen other sample where this value is used as it is.  You can also leave it empty ("").

olaloux,

many thanks for your help here..

cheers
peewee