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Woo hoo, I'm finally off the edge and have dove into the world of XML/DOM etc... I have a question tho... Here's what I want to do: I want to have a document "container.xml" <?xml version="1.0" standalone="no" ?> <!DOCTYPE container [ <!ELEMENT container ANY> <!ENTITY blah SYSTEM "blah.xml"> ]> <container> &blah; </container> then, blah would contain: <?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes" ?> <!DOCTYPE data [ <!ELEMENT data (firstname,lastname)> <!ELEMENT firstname (#PCDATA)> <!ELEMENT lastname (#PCDATA)> ]> <data> <firstname>Binesh</firstname> <lastname>Bannerjee</lastname> </data> I'm using Sun's DOM implementation... If I'm not misinterpreting, Listing 6-17 in "XML: Extensible Markup Language" by Elliotte Rusty Harold on page 202 does exactly that... If I run Sun's XmlDocument.createXmlDocument("file:///path/blah.xml",true); works fine... However running XmlDocument.createXmlDocument("file:///path/container.xml",true); yields: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Expected "encoding=...". at com.sun.xml.parser.Parser.fatal(Parser.java:2797) Removing the xml PI from blah.xml (which makes it an invalid doc, if I've read the spec correctly) yields: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The content beginning "<!" is not legal markup. Perhaps the "!" () character should be a letter. at com.sun.xml.parser.Parser.fatal(Parser.java:2797) What's going on? Shouldn't I be able to do this? If I remove the &blah; in container.xml it parses fine... If not, what is the best way of doing what I want? Even this fails: blah.dtd: <!ELEMENT data (firstname,lastname)> <!ELEMENT firstname (#PCDATA)> <!ELEMENT lastname (#PCDATA)> blah.xml: <?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?> <!DOCTYPE data SYSTEM "blah.dtd"> <data> <firstname>Binesh</firstname> <lastname>Bannerjee</lastname> </data> container.xml: <?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?> <!DOCTYPE container [ <!ELEMENT container ANY> <!ENTITY blah SYSTEM "blah.xml"> ]> <container> &blah; </container> How does one include _valid_ xml docs in other _valid_ xml docs?? Am I doing something wrong, or is it time to switch DOM implementations? Thanks... Binesh Bannerjee 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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