Java, xml, XSLT: Prevent DTD-Validation

Question

I use the Java (6) XML-Api to apply a xslt transformation on a html-document from the web. This document is wellformed xhtml and so contains a valid DTD-Spec (

Answer 1

Try setting a feature in your DocumentBuilderFactory:

URL url = new URL(urlString);
InputStream is = url.openStream();
DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
dbf.setFeature("http://apache.org/xml/features/nonvalidating/load-external-dtd", false);
DocumentBuilder db;
db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
Document result = db.parse(is);

Right now I'm experiencing the same problems inside XSLT(2) when calling the document function to analyse external XHTML-pages.