creating xmldocumenttype

[billsahiker]

Anyone know of some sample xml files on the net that include every
option of DOCTYPE?

I cannot find much. Lots of documentation, but cannot find examples so
I can see the exact syntax. So, I have tried to write one in notepad,
but IE gives me errors. For example, what is wrong with the
following?:

<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "http://www.yahoo.com" [<!ENTITY h
'hardcover'>]><book genre='novel' ISBN='1-861001-57-5'><title>Pride
And Prejudice</title><misc/></book>

IE6 gives me this error:
A string literal was expected, but no opening quote character was
found.

I tried both single and double quotes around the public url. If I take
out the public url, ie displays the xml OK.

I wrote a parsing routine in c# and I need some test xml files with
every nodetype and interface thereof.

please help

Bill

 

[Richard Tobin]

<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "http://www.yahoo.com" [<!ENTITY h

If you use PUBLIC you have to give both a public id and a system id.

http://www.yahoo.com looks more like a system identifier anyway!

-- Richard

 

[billsahiker]

That helps some. now what I need are some valid public and system IDs,
preferably including a dtd that I can use for testing. Know of any? I
would think there are some test web sites available for that.

Bill

<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "http://www.yahoo.com" [<!ENTITY h

If you use PUBLIC you have to give both a public id and a system id.

http://www.yahoo.comlooks more like a system identifier anyway!

-- Richard

 

[Guest]

That helps some. now what I need are some valid public and system IDs,

Have you bothered looking at the XML Recommendation? Section 4.2.2
explains the use of public and system IDs, gives the productions which
specify the legal character ranges and forms, and points out that the
system ID is expected to be "a URI which may be used to retrieve the
entity" whereas the public ID is interpreted by the processor in
whatever manner that processor wants to interpret it.