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Re: Cannot have multiple DOCTYPE declarations

• To: Liam Quin <liam@w...>
• Subject: Re: Cannot have multiple DOCTYPE declarations
• From: c p <bugs75il@y...>
• Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 16:59:45 -0800 (PST)
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Would anyone be kindly able to explain how the option
1 would work?  

Thanks,
C
--- Liam Quin <liam@w...> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 11:00:07AM -0800, c p wrote:
> > I have a directory that holds a whole bunch of XML
> > files.  For each such directory, I also have an
> > index.xml file.  In the index.xml file, it holds
> some
> > text data to describe that directory content and
> then
> > it includes a reference to each XML file in that
> > directory.  This referencing is done through
> entity
> > file.
> 
> Most likely you want one of:
> 
> (1) to use links instead of entity references
>     depending on how you process the XML, you might
> use
>     XLink, or even just <a href="..."> ...</a>
> 
> (2) you might be trying to include fragments of XML
> in
>     a single larger file.  The DTD (if any) referred
> to
>     is for the result of including them, and should
> be
>     referenced by the outer "index.xml" file.
> 
>     The individual pieces should not have DOCTYPE at
>     the start, as they are external parsed entities
> (in
>     XML jargon) and not complete documents.
> 
> (3) you want to do (2) but to include entire XML
> files.
>     In this case, either use XInclude (e.g. with
> libxml
>     and/or xsltproc) to include them, or set up each
> XML
>     file like this (here is "outer.xml" for
> example:)
>     <!DOCTYPE whatever SYSTEM "XXX" [
>         <!ENTITY the-doc SYSTEM "inner.xml">
>     ]>
>     &inner.xml;
> 
>     and in index.xml include inner.xml rather than
> outer.xml
>     The outer.xml file is just a wrapper so you can
> include the
>     same document from two places.
> 
> But I think (2) is most likely what will work for
> you -- just
> delete the DOCTYPE declarations on the included
> files.
> 
> Liam
> 
> -- 
> Liam Quin, W3C XML Activity Lead,
> http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/
> http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/
> 


		
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