hi jim,

thanks for the reply

if the DTD is included in the source file
and with either of the xmllint commands

Code:

xmllint --noout --loaddtd file.xml

or

Code:

xmllint --noout --dtdattr file.xml

it works perfectly as expected

but in either of the case, source file needs to be modified which is not possible in my case

So, is there any other way to use the dtd in the command line ( as an external dtd ) and not to alter the source file