[xsl] Stopping Saxon searching for an external DTD

[jim smith <jim at xoo dot co dot uk>]

(this is probably related to: [xsl] must be a trivial problem)


I'm writing a simple fragment of XSL to process Moreover news files. 
I'm using Saxon 5.5 through JBindery on a Mac at the moment, but it 
will eventually move to 5.5 running on an NT machine.

I want to grab the news every 30 minutes or so, process it and cache 
it, to reduce server load. I'm at home at the moment, on a dialup, 
and I notice that attempting to transform the moreover file, which 
begins with the DOCTYPE declaration

<!DOCTYPE moreovernews SYSTEM 
"http://p.moreover.com/xml_dtds/moreovernews.dtd">

fails when I'm offline, but not when I'm online.

I'm not actually clear what's going on here. Is Saxon actually 
attempting to grab the DTD or is Java having a problem because it 
thinks the URL should be resolved before proceeding? (In which case, 
why doesn't it crash like a normal Java app on a Mac...)

Or is it something else?

As I'm confident that Moreover files are valid, and my XSL doesn't 
care, is there any way to turn this feature off?

j
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