Re: external dtd subset content
Tim Bray (tbray@textuality.com)
Fri, 12 Dec 1997 07:38:48 -0800
At 12:34 PM 12/12/97 +0100, james anderson wrote:
>1? since the external subset contains markup declarations only, it
>would appear that it establishes no constraint on the root element. is
>it legitimate to use the same dtd for various xml documents, each with a
>different root element?
That's right.
>2? among the example DTD's we've found, some begin with an <?xml ... >
>form. others don't. isn't that form excluded from being a PI and thus
>from being a markupdecl?
I think that should be OK since a DTD is an external parsed entity.
But I've put your mail in the errata file to make sure it's clear enough.
-Tim