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Alan Kennedy wrote: > >From my reading of the XML 1.0 spec, it is not possible to have a > standalone document, with it's own DTD, "included" in another document > as an external parsed entity. > > Am I wrong? You are right. The nearest you can come in a formal sense is to declare your standalone document as an *unparsed* entity. Note that "unparsed" != "unparsable". Then you need an application framework capable of recursively parsing unparsed entities using XML notation, which AFAIK does not yet exist. As for your specific problem, if your documents conform to random DTDs, you have much worse problems than the rules about external entities. What is a member name? What is a country? Etc. What is the format of your original documents? Can you make them conform to a single DTD, like say XHTML 1.0? XAF (http://www.megginson.com/XAF) may be helpful. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@c... You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5) 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 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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