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[docbook-apps] what's the value of the document type declaration?
- From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at mindspring dot com>
- To: docbook apps list <docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org>
- Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 12:53:39 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: [docbook-apps] what's the value of the document type declaration?
got into a discussion last night with someone discussing
docbook transformation (being the party animal that i am),
and the question arose as to the value of the document type
declaration at the top of the XML file. you know:
<!DOCTYPE book ... blah blah ...>
while the declaration is, of course, useful for validation,
it doesn't technically play a part in the actual transformation.
i pointed out the one value that it includes all of the extra
entities, so that you can use things like ℵ and ⊕,
and so on.
but beyond the inclusion of the addition entities, is there
some other value for the declaration? just curious.
rday
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Robert P. J. Day
Eno River Technologies
Unix, Linux and Open Source training
Waterloo, Ontario
www.enoriver.com
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