[XERCESC-2070] Ability to disable DTD processing

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.2.0, 3.1.4
• Component/s: Validating Parser (DTD)
• Assignee: Scott Cantor
• Reporter: Scott Cantor
• Created: 10/Jun/16 01:47
• Updated: 28/Aug/17 23:41
• Resolved: 27/Jun/17 02:43

Description

We should provide a way for applications that don't need DTDs to be insulated from bugs in that code.

Trunk could do this pretty easily with the same property URI that Xerces-J and Java use for this.

To do it without an ABI change, I'm going to patch in an environment variable check. It's ugly, but this is a problem of such magnitude that I don't see any other option, particularly given the lack of resources devoted to the project.