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- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- To: Binesh Bannerjee <binesh@hex21.com>
- Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 18:57:05 -0400
At 10:11 AM -0400 8/27/99, Binesh Bannerjee wrote:
>On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
>
>>
>> Eventually this may be possible through XLinks and XML fragments, but it
>> isn't possible using straight DTDs and external entities.
>
>So, does this mean in your book on XML (ISBN 0-7645-3199-9), Listing 6-17
>won't really work?
>
Listing 6-17 in XML: Extensible Markup Language works, but only if the
three referenced external entities (header.xml, footer.xml, and body.xml)
don't have document type declarations. If they do the parser will reject
them.
>That's a bummer... I could have used that... Oh well, I guess I'll
>_have_ to store the DTD _fragments_ and the data separately and then have
>a meta program that will dynamically weave together a full DTD... But
>I thought XML would save me from that...
>
Yes, that's pretty much what you have to do.
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