RE: [docbook-apps] what's the value of the document type declarat ion?

[Jeff Beal <jeff dot beal at ansys dot com>]

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.

Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Beal [mailto:jeff.beal@ansys.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 1:23 PM
> To: 'Robert P. J. Day'
> Cc: docbook apps list
> Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] what's the value of the document type
> declarat ion?
> 
> 
> Also correct.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Robert P. J. Day [mailto:rpjday@mindspring.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 1:15 PM
> > To: Jeff Beal
> > Cc: docbook apps list
> > Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] what's the value of the document type
> > declarat ion?
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Jeff Beal wrote:
> > 
> > > In terms of transformation, it also provides any default 
> > attribute values.
> > 
> > and i just remembered as well that you can define general entities
> > only within the document type declaration, right?
> > 
> > rday
> > 
> > 
> > 
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