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Re: Combining external entities with DTDs

• From: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>
• To: julian.reschke@g...
• Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 11:26:43 +0100

> 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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