On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 2:46 AM, Ralf Jung <
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> Hi Erik,
>
>> There has been a lot of debate about even the existence of DTDs in
>> XML. Now XML is stuck with them and lots of documents still use them.
>> But if you can avoid them, you probably should!
> Unfortunately I can't. This is a very old XML format I am dealing with, with
> lot of data being stored in that format, and I am happy to have any validation
> available at all. I don't exactly feel like creating an XMLScheme for it. Not
> to mention that, from all I understood, XMLSchemes can't handle entities - and
> entities are a core part of the format, encoding much more than just
> characters :(
>
>> So you mean with the external entity, or with pasting your entities
>> into each document?
> I pasted most of the global .ent files into all of the DTDs, thanks for that
> hint. It's working, but ugly, so I still hope for some configuration switch :)
> . After all, I'm not going to productively use the new version before it had a
> stable release.
>
> Kind regards,
> Ralf Jung
>
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