RE: Combining external entities with DTDs

[Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>]

Thanks.

This is exactly what I needed...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Carlisle [mailto:davidc@nag.co.uk]
> Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 12:27 PM
> To: julian.reschke@gmx.de
> Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: Re: Combining external entities with DTDs
> 
> 
> 
> > Can I declare the external entitity in the header of my XML 
> instance file
> > without having to modify the DTD?
> 
> yes or no.
> 
> You can do:
> 
> <!DOCTYPE Page SYSTEM "cfl.dtd" [
> <!ENTITY % wibble "wobble.ent">
> %wibble;
> ]>
> <Page>
> ...  &wrangle; ...
> </Page>
> 
> 
> where wobble.ent contains
> <!ENTITY wrangle "x">
> 
> 
> whether or not that is modifying the DTD depends on your view of what
> "DTD" means.
> 
> David
> 
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