I agree ... consider it done! Knowing when to say "when!"
Thanx again, Sandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > "<!ELEMENT ( %fontstyle; | %phrase; ) (%inline;)* >" > > This is just a SWAG, since I don't know SGML, but it looks like SGML must > either support a "include either this or that" type of entity reference > mechanism or a different syntax for an element declaration?? Otherwise, > there is no way that this could produce a legal XML element declaration, > which must be in the form: <!ELEMENT elemname contentmodel>. The one in > your DTD would either have to selectively expand 'fontstyle' or 'phrase' or > if you literally just expand entities it would end up with something like > this: <!ELEMENT (blah | bloo) (contentmodel)*> which would'b be a legal XML > entity declaration AFAIK. > > Anyway, that was probably a total waste of bandwidth since I know squat > about SGML :-) But, I think that you would definitely be better off taking > Arnaud's advice and upgrading to XHTML. > > ---------------------------------------- > Dean Roddey > Software Weenie > IBM Center for Java Technology - Silicon Valley > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sandy Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 02/25/2000 02:24:27 PM > > Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > cc: > Subject: Re: Trouble parsing HTML4.DTD > > Thanx all, > > Interesting, never dawned on me that it would be SGML, but it makes > sense ... I'll look at the XHTML, but ideally I can hack this down to > something workable. > > I did manage to clean up the DTD file but hit the following trouble > spot, perhaps you can shed some insight ... > > ... extra deleted ... > <!ENTITY % reserved ""> > <!ENTITY % attrs "%coreattrs; %i18n; %events;"> > <!ENTITY % fontstyle "TT | I | B | BIG | SMALL"> > <!ENTITY % phrase "EM | STRONG | DFN | CODE | SAMP | KBD | VAR | CITE | > ABBR | ACRONYM" > > <!ENTITY % special "A | IMG | OBJECT | BR | SCRIPT | MAP | Q | SUB | SUP > | SPAN | BDO"> > <!ENTITY % formctrl "INPUT | SELECT | TEXTAREA | LABEL | BUTTON"> > <!ENTITY % inline "#PCDATA | %fontstyle; | %phrase; | %special; | > %formctrl;"> > > <!ELEMENT ( %fontstyle; | %phrase; ) (%inline;)* > > > <!ATTLIST ( %fontstyle; | %phrase; ) %attrs; > > ... continued ... > > The parser works fine until it hits the > <!ELEMENT ( %fontstyle; | %phrase; ) (%inline;)* > > line. I've gone through the XML syntax/grammar and it looks ok. Yet, the > parser doesn't like it at all: > > C:\src\dtd\xerces-c_1_1_0_d05-win32\bin>saxcount readme.html > > Fatal Error at (file C:\src\dtd\xerces-c_1_1_0_d05-win32\bin\html4.dtd, > line 95, char 11): > readme.html: 50 ms (0 elems, 0 attrs, 0 spaces, 0 chars) > > I've checked the line a dozen times and can't see the problem. The fatal > error seems to indicate something more systemic. > > Additional thoughts? > > -Sandy > > Arnaud Le Hors wrote: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > The DTD, as you posted it anyway, is pretty much completely dead. > > > > Not true. > > > > > It > > > appears as though the <!-- of most of the comments have been lost, for > > > instance, from the very beginning of the file: > > > > > > <!ENTITY % ContentType "CDATA" > > > -- media type, as per [RFC2045] --> > > > > > > should have almost certainly been: > > > > > > <!ENTITY % ContentType "CDATA" > > > <! -- media type, as per [RFC2045] --> > > > > > > In the first form, its definitely not a valid DTD. So did it get munged > in > > > the process of your posting it or is that the way it really is? > > > > This is not a valid XML DTD, but it is a valid SGML DTD! HTML 4.0 is an > > SGML application. Xerces only supports XML DTDs. You may want to > > consider switching from HTML to XHTML [1], after which you'll be able to > > use Xerces. > > > > [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1 > > -- > > Arnaud Le Hors - IBM Cupertino, XML Technology Group -- Alex "Sandy" Walsh, CTO InfoCast Corporation - http://www.infocast-corp.com Cell: 902-452-5441, Fax: 603-258-0508 PCS: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (150 char max)
