• To: Kevin.Gutch@m...
• Subject: Re: general entity
• From: Ronald Bourret <rpbourret@r...>
• Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 16:11:57 -0700
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• References: <OFD1ECE5A4.1C35F99F-ON85256B99.0060650C@m...>

The only problem I see is that you need to wrap your entity declarations
in a DOCTYPE statement:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE mydoctype [
   <!ENTITY % myOtherDTD SYSTEM "myOtherDTD.dtd">
   %myOtherDTD;
   <!ENTITY dataTest "replacement text">
]>
<mydoctype>...</mydoctype>

-- Ron

Kevin.Gutch@m... wrote:
> 
> I have a DTD that uses an parameter entity to import another dtd. Its only
> other function is to then declare a general internal. My problem is that my
> xml file will validate against this dtd but will not recognize the
> reference to the Entity in the XML file. Should this work and is it
> appropriate?
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <!ENTITY % myOtherDTD SYSTEM "myOtherDTD.dtd">
> %myOtherDTD;
> <!ENTITY dataTest "replacement text">

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