xml-dev - re: DTD's

[David Megginson <david@megginson.com>]

Robert Maher writes:

 > Can anyone tell me how to 'register' DTD's
 > where do you save them to so that when you write
 > <... SYSTEM "blah.dtd"> in your xml file it recognises it?

In XML, the system identifier is a URI.  If blah.dtd is in the same
directory as the top-level document entity (the XML file, in normal
talk), then the parser will probably find it.  In many cases, people
use absolute URIs like

  http://www.foo.com/dtds/blah.dtd

So that the DTD can always be found from any machine, though that
might force a lot of HTTP GETs, depending on your redirection and
caching mechanisms.


All the best,


David

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