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I'm sure this must have been dealt with some time ago, so my apologies in advance, but has anyone been applying DTDs to sub-documents, e.g. you have an XML document (without a DTD) like <?xml version="1.0"?> <document> <head> <title>The Title</title> </head> <body> <equation dtd="equation.dtd"> <variable>a</variable> <equals/> <variable>b</variable> </equation> </body> </document> and you only want to apply the DTD to a particular section, in this case the <equation> tag and its children. What I would really like is to have my XML parser produce a tag stream, and then have the appropriate part of the tag stream validated against the DTD. However, looking at how current parsers work, it seems more like what I would have to do is (i) parse the document (ii) intercept the <equation> tag and its siblings (iii) generate an intermediate XML document from (ii) (iv) parse the intermediate document using the DTD which involves an extra "tags -> XML test -> tags" round-trip that I would have preferred to avoid. Can anyone tell me if there is a better way than what I have described above? I'm sure I won't be the only one wanting to do this, so some of you must already have had much better ideas than my own. Anyway, if anyone has any hints, I would be very grateful for them. Cheers, Tony. ** Anthony B. Coates ** Software Engineer (Java). This is a 100% Pure Java e-mail. ** <mailto:abcoates@o...> xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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