Bug 103823

Summary: Add option to omit DOCTYPE for XML output
Product: poppler Reporter: Gerrit Imsieke <gerrit.imsieke>
Component: pdftohtmlAssignee: poppler-bugs <poppler-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED MOVED QA Contact:
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Priority: medium    
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Description Gerrit Imsieke 2017-11-20 08:53:26 UTC 
Currently (I’m using 0.57.0 on Cygwin), with the -xml option, there is always a DOCTYPE declaration with no public identifier and the system identifier 'pdf2xml.dtd'.
The issue is that I can’t use an XML catalog to direct pdf2xml.dtd to a (possibly empty) DTD. This is an issue with relative paths as system identifiers. It is described on http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/WriteCatalog.html#RelativeSysId
As a consequence, I need to remove the DOCTYPE line manually or with xmllint in order to be able to process the output with Java-based tools such as oXygen, Saxon, or XML Calabash. 
Please add either a public identifier (any non-empty string will do) that can be diverted by means of an XML catalog, or add a command-line option not to issue a DOCTYPE declaration at all.
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