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Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] what's the value of the document type declarat ion?
On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Jeff Beal wrote: > However, as I think about it a little bit more, the document below is a > well-formed document using general entities, but not pulling in an external > DTD (assuming that introduction.xml and chapter1.xml are both well-formed > XML fragments): > > <!DOCTYPE book [ > <!ENTITY introduction SYSTEM "introduction.xml"> > <!ENTITY chapter1 SYSTEM "chapter1.xml"> > ]> > <book> > <title>A Non-validating document</title> > &introduction; > &chapter1; > </book> > > This won't validate, of course, because you haven't defined any elements, > but an XML parser will still be able to find your document fragments. i did check that out, but i was also trying to keep things relatively mainstream, so i let that one go as being just a bit contrived. so i'm adding to my little tutorial the functions of the document type declaration: 1) for potential validation (non-essential for actual transformation) 2) for default attribute values defined in the DTD 3) for included entities 4) for the ability to define additional internal and external general entities i think i'll leave out the ability to have internal DTD subsets -- that's just a bit much for now. thanks. rday
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