<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>13.10.3 EntityResolver Objects </title> <META NAME="description" CONTENT="13.10.3 EntityResolver Objects "> <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="lib"> <META NAME="resource-type" CONTENT="document"> <META NAME="distribution" CONTENT="global"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset="> <link rel="STYLESHEET" href="lib.css"> <link rel="first" href="lib.html"> <link rel="contents" href="contents.html" title="Contents"> <link rel="index" href="genindex.html" title="Index"> <LINK REL="next" href="sax-error-handler.html"> <LINK REL="previous" href="dtd-handler-objects.html"> <LINK REL="up" href="module-xml.sax.handler.html"> <LINK REL="next" href="sax-error-handler.html"> </head> <body> <DIV CLASS="navigation"> <table align="center" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2"> <tr> <td><A href="dtd-handler-objects.html"><img src="../icons/previous.gif" border="0" height="32" alt="Previous Page" width="32"></A></td> <td><A href="module-xml.sax.handler.html"><img src="../icons/up.gif" border="0" height="32" alt="Up One Level" width="32"></A></td> <td><A href="sax-error-handler.html"><img src="../icons/next.gif" border="0" height="32" alt="Next Page" width="32"></A></td> <td align="center" width="100%">Python Library Reference</td> <td><A href="contents.html"><img src="../icons/contents.gif" border="0" height="32" alt="Contents" width="32"></A></td> <td><a href="modindex.html" title="Module Index"><img src="../icons/modules.gif" border="0" height="32" alt="Module Index" width="32"></a></td> <td><A href="genindex.html"><img src="../icons/index.gif" border="0" height="32" alt="Index" width="32"></A></td> </tr></table> <b class="navlabel">Previous:</b> <a class="sectref" href="dtd-handler-objects.html">13.10.2 DTDHandler Objects</A> <b class="navlabel">Up:</b> <a class="sectref" href="module-xml.sax.handler.html">13.10 xml.sax.handler </A> <b class="navlabel">Next:</b> <a class="sectref" href="sax-error-handler.html">13.10.4 ErrorHandler Objects</A> <br><hr> </DIV> <!--End of Navigation Panel--> <H2><A NAME="SECTION00151030000000000000000"> </A> <BR> 13.10.3 EntityResolver Objects </H2> <P> <dl><dt><b><a name="l2h-3347"><tt class="method">resolveEntity</tt></a></b>(<var>publicId, systemId</var>) <dd> Resolve the system identifier of an entity and return either the system identifier to read from as a string, or an InputSource to read from. The default implementation returns <var>systemId</var>. </dl> <P> <DIV CLASS="navigation"> <p><hr> <table align="center" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2"> <tr> <td><A href="dtd-handler-objects.html"><img src="../icons/previous.gif" border="0" height="32" alt="Previous Page" width="32"></A></td> <td><A href="module-xml.sax.handler.html"><img src="../icons/up.gif" border="0" height="32" alt="Up One Level" width="32"></A></td> <td><A href="sax-error-handler.html"><img src="../icons/next.gif" border="0" height="32" alt="Next Page" width="32"></A></td> <td align="center" width="100%">Python Library Reference</td> <td><A href="contents.html"><img src="../icons/contents.gif" border="0" height="32" alt="Contents" width="32"></A></td> <td><a href="modindex.html" title="Module Index"><img src="../icons/modules.gif" border="0" height="32" alt="Module Index" width="32"></a></td> <td><A href="genindex.html"><img src="../icons/index.gif" border="0" height="32" alt="Index" width="32"></A></td> </tr></table> <b class="navlabel">Previous:</b> <a class="sectref" href="dtd-handler-objects.html">13.10.2 DTDHandler Objects</A> <b class="navlabel">Up:</b> <a class="sectref" href="module-xml.sax.handler.html">13.10 xml.sax.handler </A> <b class="navlabel">Next:</b> <a class="sectref" href="sax-error-handler.html">13.10.4 ErrorHandler Objects</A> <hr> <span class="release-info">Release 2.2, documentation updated on December 21, 2001.</span> </DIV> <!--End of Navigation Panel--> <ADDRESS> See <i><a href="about.html">About this document...</a></i> for information on suggesting changes. </ADDRESS> </BODY> </HTML>