DTD validation i.e. General ENTITY parsing

Name: rmT116609 Date: 04/01/2004


A DESCRIPTION OF THE REQUEST :
<!DOCTYPE jnlp [
  <!ENTITY webserver "PUT_JAWS_WEB_SERVER_HERE">
  <!ENTITY serverport "PUT_JAWS_WEB_SERVER_PORT_HERE">
  <!ENTITY base_jardir "PUT_JAWS_WEB_PRIM_DIR_HERE">
  <!ENTITY sub_jardir "PUT_JAWS_WEB_SUB_DIR_HERE">
]>

<jnlp
  spec="1.0+"
  codebase="http://&webserver;:&serverport;/&base_jardir;/&sub_jardir;"
  -------------- skipped ---------------
</jnlp>

This is valid XML. But it seems Webstart XML parsing module doesn't use
DTD validation. ENTITY is std XML and allows for avoiding repeated
text. BTW if I rename this file to foo.xml and open in IE6.0 it shows up
correctly.



JUSTIFICATION :
ENTITY is std XML and allows for avoiding repeated text. BTW if I
rename this file to foo.xml and open in IE6.0 it shows up correctly.

Take a look at ANT build.xml for apache-cocoon project
<!DOCTYPE project [
  <!ENTITY init-targets SYSTEM "./src/targets/init-build.xml">
]>

<project default="webapp" basedir="." name="Apache Cocoon">
  <!-- Initialization targets -->
  &init-targets;
</project>


EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
EXPECTED -
replace entity references with entity values

ACTUAL -
MissingField <jnlp> Exception

---------- BEGIN SOURCE ----------
<!DOCTYPE jnlp [
  <!ENTITY webserver "PUT_JAWS_WEB_SERVER_HERE">
  <!ENTITY serverport "PUT_JAWS_WEB_SERVER_PORT_HERE">
  <!ENTITY base_jardir "PUT_JAWS_WEB_PRIM_DIR_HERE">
  <!ENTITY sub_jardir "PUT_JAWS_WEB_SUB_DIR_HERE">
]>

<jnlp
  spec="1.0+"
  codebase="http://&webserver;:&serverport;/&base_jardir;/&sub_jardir;"
  -------------- skipped ---------------
</jnlp>
---------- END SOURCE ----------

CUSTOMER SUBMITTED WORKAROUND :
Use the values explicitely and repeat in all places
(Incident Review ID: 235044)
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