XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[luca <passani AT eunet.no>]

Elliotte Harold wrote:
> It seems likely that you had a temporary DNS glitch that prevented the 
> parser from downloading the remote DTD. If you control the documents 
> you're parsing, replace the reference to wapforum.org with a local copy 
> of your DTD. If you don't control the documents you're parsing, you 
> could use a SAX EntityResolver such as Norm Walsh's catalog filter to do 
> this for you. Native XOM catalog support is on the TODO list for 
> sometime post-1.0.

mmm. Unfortunately I don't control the XML document. This is always
about the same issue of using XOM to parse WML/XHTML-MP mark-up
and extract img references. There is not much use for a DTD for me.
There must be an easy way to tell XOM (or whatever lies beneath XOM)
to ignore DTDs.
Generally speaking the idea of making the well-functioning
of a software system dependent on a resource out of one's control
does not seem wise to me and I definitely want to avoid this situation
in my system.

Also, it's unlikely that it was a DNS glitch. The resource is available
on the net and I even rebooted my PC to make it absolutely sure.

thank you

Luca