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-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Blau <fblau@n...>
>If I have 3 attributes ("Format", "Usage", and "Loop") that I want every
>element in my DTD to have, is there a way to globally declare them?
No.
>Do subelements inherit the attributes of the parent element?
Not as far as the processor is concerned, although an application might
behave this way.
Common practice is to declare a parameter entity representing that part of
an ATTLIST declaration you want to use globally and then reference that
parameter entity in a separate ATTLIST declaration for each element.
For example:
<!ENTITY % global.atts 'format CDATA #REQUIRED usage CDATA #REQUIRED loop
CDATA #implied'>
<!ATTLIST element1 %global.atts; >
...
<!ATTLIST element2 %global.atts; >
...
<!ATTLIST element3
<!-- element3 specific atts here -->
%global.atts; >
James
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