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dtd [message #175465] Wed, 26 July 2006 05:52 Go to next message
Juergen Aschenbrenner is currently offline Juergen Aschenbrenner
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Hi,

I am wondering if someone in this forum can help me with the following
problem:
In a workspace I got several dtd's in the SAME folder. One dtd declares
common elements that are used/referenced by other dtd's. However it looks
as if the common declared elements cannot be resolved.

Any hints

Cheers Jürgen

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Re: dtd [message #175504 is a reply to message #175465] Wed, 26 July 2006 11:30 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Lawrence Mandel is currently offline Lawrence Mandel
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Hi Jürgen,

Can you provide an example of how you're importing the common DTD in the
other DTDs?

Lawrence

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Re: dtd [message #175518 is a reply to message #175465] Wed, 26 July 2006 11:49 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Craig Salter is currently offline Craig Salter
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Juergen wrote:

> ... However it looks as if the common declared elements cannot be resolved.

Try using the DTD validator to see if the error messages give you hints.
If not there's nothing I can suggest other than eyeballing the DTDs.
Considering that most large DTDs degrade quickly into 'macro soup' that
may be a bit of a challenge.

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Re: dtd [message #175551 is a reply to message #175504] Wed, 26 July 2006 20:30 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Juergen Aschenbrenner is currently offline Juergen Aschenbrenner
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Hi Imandel,

the example actualy comes from petstore I am trying to build and deploy
from eclipse (does someone tried it?)

The two dtd's are:

the CommonElements.dtd

<!ELEMENT Name (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT Image (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT Description (#PCDATA)>

and CategoryDetails.dtd

<!ELEMENT CategoryDetails (Name, Image?, Description?)>
<!ATTLIST CategoryDetails
xml:lang NMTOKEN #REQUIRED
>

The CategoryDetails.dtd fails to validate because Name, Image and
Description cannot be resolved. Though both dtd's are in the same folder.

Juergen

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Re: dtd [message #175644 is a reply to message #175551] Thu, 27 July 2006 16:51 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Lawrence Mandel is currently offline Lawrence Mandel
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Hi Juergen,

If I remember correctly you need to include the definitions from the
CommonElements.dtd in the CategoryDetails.dtd.

So the two dtd's are:

the CommonElements.dtd

<!ELEMENT Name (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT Image (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT Description (#PCDATA)>

and CategoryDetails.dtd

<!ENTITY % commonelements SYSTEM "CommonElements.dtd">
%commonelements;
<!ELEMENT CategoryDetails (Name, Image?, Description?)>
<!ATTLIST CategoryDetails
xml:lang NMTOKEN #REQUIRED
>

Lawrence

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Re: dtd [message #175695 is a reply to message #175644] Fri, 28 July 2006 07:15 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Juergen Aschenbrenner is currently offline Juergen Aschenbrenner
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Hi Imandel,

thanks for Your Help. Your suggested solution works up to a certain point.
These two dtd validate. A third dtd that is referencing ( I learned it is
called parametereized entity) the CategoryDetails.dtd fails to validate
because elements are declared more than once. This remeinds me of C/C++
and conditional includes that seems to be the issue here. The
CommonElements.dtd is included via several intermediary parameterized
entities.

Do You have any Idea how this can be done best?

Cheers Juergen

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Re: dtd [message #175783 is a reply to message #175695] Mon, 31 July 2006 10:39 Go to previous message
Lawrence Mandel is currently offline Lawrence Mandel
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Hi Juergen,

DTDs do have their limitations. (Actually, similar problems are
encountered using XML schema as wel.) Unfortuantely I don't have a good
suggestion for working around this aside from refactoring your DTDs.
Building a simple and clean import tree is definitely a benefit when
working with DTDs.

Lawrence

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