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I'm trying to validate using libxml-ruby's DTD#validate, but I keep getting the following warnings:

Warning: failed to load external entity "xhtml-lat1.ent" at :29.
Warning: failed to load external entity "xhtml-symbol.ent" at :34.
Warning: failed to load external entity "xhtml-special.ent" at :39.

I wouldn't mind, except I use things like …, which are defined in those, causing my XHTML to appear to be invalid.

How do I tell the DTD about those extra files? I tried running from a directory containing the .dtd file and all of the .ents, but that doesn't help.

James A. Rosen
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Reading the release notes I would suspect that you need to either use 

XML.default_substitute_entities = true

or 

XML.default_load_external_dtd = true

or both.

Nic Gibson
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  • I'm having similar issues, and these options don't seem to have much (any?) effect. – James Healy Jul 17 '09 at 02:23
  • Apologies - I'm not much of a ruby person (I'm an xml person). The docs seem to be particularly poor for libxml-ruby so I can't be of any more help – Nic Gibson Jul 17 '09 at 12:57