External entity specifications

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On processing, these entities expand to the contents of the files.

In the DTD:

<!ENTITY ChapTwo SYSTEM "sgmlmkup.txt">

In the document:

<body>
&ChapOne;
&ChapTwo;
...
</body>

External entity specifications can refer to SYSTEM or PUBLIC identifiers.

<!ENTITY mteO-ro PUBLIC "-//MTE//TEXT CES1 1984//RO">

If FORMAL=YES then PUBLIC identifier must be properly structured.

Tomaz Erjavec
1/9/2000