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>When specifying the URI for an external DTD in the DOCTYPE declaration, is >it generally accepted that a network-accessible document should be >specified, or a local one? I often see examples where the URI is http://... ><http://...> , but I find it hard to imagine that *every time* a particular >XML file is parsed by a validating parser, the DTD is downloaded from some >remote web server. The XML spec does not seem to talk about this, but is >there some search algorithm that allows a remote URI to be overridden by a >local file, if it exists? As far as I know, relative URIs of the form <!DOCTYPE foo SYSTEM "foo.dtd"> (or some other relative path like "../dtds/foo.dtd") is more common than using remote DTDs, although this may be changing. The beauty of allowing relative URIs is that it makes it all backward-compatible with the SGML way, in which URIs were not an issue. In XML terms, the above example points to a relative URI that is in the same directory as the document, so if the document is local, the DTD is assumed to be as well. Bob DuCharme www.snee.com/bob <bob@ snee.com> see www.snee.com/bob/xmlann for "XML: The Annotated Specification" from Prentice Hall. 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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