Repesention of table in an XML-DTD

Amit Rekhi (amitr@abinfosys.com)
Tue, 29 Sep 1998 09:23:14 +0530

Hello,
I was wondering what would be the best way to be repesenting a
large table (with 500+ entries) in an external subset of an XML file's DTD
and selecting a row of the table in the XML file's internal DTD subset.

SCENARIO

I have a table say TABLE CODE with 2 columns (Code Identifier
and Code Description) :-

TABLE
CODE
Code Identifier
Code Description

1
This represents the first code value in list
2
This represents second code value in list
.
.
(There are around 500-700 entries in this table)

I have a requirement wherein :-

1) I want to represent this large table above in an XML - DTD (preferbably
in the DTD's external subset since this table is to be accessed by many XML
files)

2) I have a set of XML files (say 10 XML files) whose external subsets point
to the file containing this table. Now in each of the XML files of the set,
I want to select a row of the table, in their internal subsets i.e.

// table.dtd