BUG-000122109 for ArcGIS for Desktop

Bug ID Number	BUG-000122109
Submitted	May 2, 2019
Last Modified	June 5, 2024
Applies to	ArcGIS for Desktop
Version found	10.7
Operating System	Windows OS
Operating System Version	10.0
Status	Will Not Be Addressed

Additional Information

The ArcGIS platform never adds DOCTYPE entries into item metadata. The DOCTYPE entry can only exist if the metadata originated outside of the ArcGIS platform, and if an unsupported method was used to associate the FGDC-format XML file provided with an item to become its metadata. When a DOCTYPE or XML Schema instance entry is added by a user to an item's metadata document, the entry specifying the XML document must be valid against the provided schema, either an XML DTD or an XML Schema, respectively. If this declaration is made, the XML document is expected to be valid. The document's validity cannot be determined if the schema is unreachable, by definition the XML is invalid, and it will not be processed. This is not a limitation of ArcGIS software. It is a fact of how XML documents are handled in XML software. The error, in this case, is produced by the underlying Microsoft code that is used to process XML documents, not by ArcGIS software. Any DOCTYPE or XML Schema instance location entries added by a customer must be removed to avoid this problem. These entries are never added by ArcGIS software.