XHTML DTD

[David Manheim]

I am writing an XHTML extension, to add some attributes to all xhtml
objects, so that for any object, I can have "<a href="http://aol.com"
text="This is a note that is useful for me">

I tried the following dtd, and I'm not sure why it won't work: it
accepts the html tags in the file, but not any of the extended tags.
I'm not sure why.

____________________base-aaa.dtd_______________________

<!ENTITY % aaa-attrs
"required (true | false) #IMPLIED
readonly (true | false) #IMPLIED
random %Text; #IMPLIED"

<!ENTITY % xhtml11.dtd
PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd" >
%xhtml11.dtd;

<!-- Then add aaa-attrs to the common attributes -->

<!ENTITY % Common.attrib
"%Core.attrib;
%I18n.attrib;
%Events.attrib;
%aaa-attrs.attrib;"

[Jan Roland Eriksson]

On 14 Jul 2005 03:08:07 -0700, "David Manheim" <da**********@gmail.com>
wrote:

I am writing an XHTML extension, to add some attributes to all xhtml
objects, so that for any object, I can have "<a href="http://aol.com"
text="This is a note that is useful for me">

I tried the following dtd, and I'm not sure why it won't work: it
accepts the html tags in the file, but not any of the extended tags.
I'm not sure why.
[...]
<!-- Then add aaa-attrs to the common attributes -->

<!ENTITY % Common.attrib
"%Core.attrib;
%I18n.attrib;
%Events.attrib;
%aaa-attrs.attrib;"

Without any deeper analysis I have the feeling that it might be caused
by the fact that the entity 'Common.attrib' is already defined in the
original DTD.

According to SGML rules, once an entity is defined it can not be
redefined at a later stage in the parse.

--
Rex

[David Manheim]

Kind of; I did need it to be put earlier in the file, before i imported
the XHTML dtd, so that when XHTML imports Common.attrib, it imports
mine, which is predefined, instead of it's own.. Of course, it still
doesn't work at all, and I'm not sure why.

[David Håsäther]

David Manheim <da**********@gmail.com> wrote:

Kind of; I did need it to be put earlier in the file, before i
imported the XHTML dtd, so that when XHTML imports Common.attrib,
it imports mine, which is predefined, instead of it's own.. Of
course, it still doesn't work at all, and I'm not sure why.

Defining Common.attrib before you include the XHTML 1.1 DTD
won't help since parameter entites must be defined before they are
used, and unless they are defined in the internal subset you will have
a lot of undefined PEs in Common.attrib. The %Text; PE reference you're
using in aaa-attrs is also undefined.
Furthermore, you define aaa-attrs but then you use %aaa-attrs.attrib;.

As David Carlisle said in your multi-posted message to comp.text.xml,
you can use Common.extra.attrib which is "empty" by default. However,
this won't really work either since the readonly attribute will be
defined twice for some element types.

--
David Håsäther