I think "<!ENTITY #DEFAULT" declares a default entity to use for references to undeclared entities. There's no equivalent in XML.
Michael Glavassevich XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Mike O'Leary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 03/01/2007 04:41:10 AM: > I am working with a collection of XML documents that I need to parse > in order to index them in Lucene. There is a DTD file that describes > the structure of these documents, but when I started working with it > I found out that it was an SGML DTD file. I found some advice on the > internet about how to convert an SGML DTD file so that it complies > with XML DTD standards, and I made changes to enable the DTD file to > be used by an XML parser. There was one !ENTITY declaration that I > didn?t know what to do with. It looks like this: > > <!ENTITY #DEFAULT SYSTEM > > > Things seem to work ok if I just comment this out, but I wonder what > it is for, and whether there is a way to make it acceptable to an > XML parser in such a way that it does what the original author meant > for it to do. Apparently the XML parser doesn?t like the # at the > start of #DEFAULT. Thanks. > Mike O?Leary --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
