Usually a DTD is external to the document:
<!DOCTYPE anthology SYSTEM "antology.dtd">
<!DOCTYPE anthology SYSTEM "antology.dtd" []>
<!DOCTYPE cesCorpus PUBLIC "-//CES//DTD cesDoc//EN">
<!DOCTYPE cesCorpus PUBLIC "-//CES//DTD cesDoc//EN"
[
<!ENTITY mte1984-en PUBLIC
"-//MTE//TEXT CES1 1984//EN">
...
<!ENTITY mte1984-ro PUBLIC
"-//MTE//TEXT CES1 1984//RO">
<!ENTITY mte1984-sl PUBLIC
"-//MTE//TEXT CES1 1984//SL">
]>
<cesCorpus id="o" version="0.1">
<cesHeader> ... </cesHeader>
&mte1984-en;
...
&mte1984-ro;
&mte1984-sl;
</cesCorpus>