Effective XML

Item 7. No one XML application can serve all uses. No one DTD can describe every necessary document. As obvious as this statement seems, there...

Attribute declarations also benefit from parameterization. For example, the type attribute of the Transaction element can be declared as follows. <!ENTITY % TypeAtt "type"> <!ENTITY % type.extra...

One of the biggest benefits of parameterization is that it lets you vary the namespace prefix. The fundamental principle of namespaces is that the prefix...

After full parameterization, the entire DTD resembles the listing below. <!ENTITY % statement.prefix "stmt"> <!ENTITY % statement.colon ":"> <!ENTITY % NamespaceDeclaration...

As the next step, we can allow particular documents to enable or disable particular parts of the DTD. This is accomplished with INCLUDE and IGNORE...