Is Scala/Java not respecting w3 “excess dtd traffic” specs?

Question

I\'m new to Scala, so I may be off base on this, I want to know if the problem is my code. Given the Scala file httpparse, simplified to:

object Http {
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Answer 1

This is a scala problem. Native Java has an option to disable loading the DTD:

f.setFeature("http://apache.org/xml/features/disallow-doctype-decl", true);

There are no equivalent in scala.

If you somewhat want to fix it yourself, check scala/xml/parsing/FactoryAdapter.scala and put the line in

278   def loadXML(source: InputSource): Node = {
279     // create parser
280     val parser: SAXParser = try {
281       val f = SAXParserFactory.newInstance()
282       f.setNamespaceAware(false)

<-- insert here

283       f.newSAXParser()
284     } catch {
285       case e: Exception =>
286         Console.err.println("error: Unable to instantiate parser")
287         throw e
288     }