xml-dev - Re: internal DTD subset production

[KAZUMI Saito <ksaito@flab.fujitsu.co.jp>]

Thanks to your suggestion.

In message "Re: internal DTD subset production",
Thierry Bezecourt wrote...

 >>When I provide the internal DTD subset as string, such
 >>string must be "<!DOCTYPE ... [ ... ]>" or  between '['
 >>and ']' only ?
 >
 >What do you mean? If you are editing an XML file directly, you should write 
 >"<!DOCTYPE ... [ ...]>" (without the double quotes). But maybe you are 
 >using a software which generates the document type declaration. In that 
 >case, see the documentation for that software. My guess is that you 
 >probably need to provide only what is between '[' and ']': if there is 
 >something before '[' in your doctype declaration, it is a reference to the 
 >external subset, not a part of the internal subset.

If only string between '[' and ']' is internal DTD subset, 
the "Root Element Type" is not part of DTD too.

[28]  doctypedecl ::=  '<!DOCTYPE' S Name ... 
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Start point of my question is W3C DOM L2's DocumentType.internalSubset
should include "<!DOCTYPE" or not.




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