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Re: How to create a new document with a DocumentType node (DTD)

• From: "Steven R. Newcomb" <srn@t...>
• To: Ed@d...
• Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 11:22:37 -0500

> We got stuck. I know the DOM level 1 spec says that editing
> DocumntType nodes is verboten, but can't you create one somehow for
> new documents. What if you are writing an up translator, say from a
> database and want to make it a valid document, by including either a
> DTD URI or the complete DOCTYPE entry. What are we missing here?

Please contact me, if you like, for a demo of GroveMinder, which can
provide access to XML documents, including every aspect of their DTDs,
as if they were SGML documents, according to the ISO-standard SGML
Property Set, which was one of the inputs to the design of the (less
comprehensive) DOM.

-Steve

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