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Re: Extending DTDs for Backward Compatibility

• From: David Megginson <ak117@f...>
• To: <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 10:12:46 -0500

Rick Jelliffe writes:

 > The first declaration of an entity has precedence.
 > 
 > So you can derive a new DTD by merely declaring the new
 > element types you need in the internal subset, and then
 > defining the appropriate parameter entity.

Absolutely right, but this doesn't solve his other problem -- that
processing software written for the base version of the DTD has to be
able to deal with documents written for the extended version.


All the best,


David

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