Re: external entities

I appreciate the response, Robert. I get why to avoid DTDs, but I wasn't aware that external entities had to be defined in a DTD. The syntax for importing an external entity reference...

<!ENTITY blue SYSTEM "colors.xml">

...suggests a plain-vanilla XML file, not a DTD. Am I wrong about this?

â€"Ken Nellis

--- In [email protected], "Robert Longson" <longsonr@...> wrote:
>
> This is not going to work, at least not in a browser. See http://hsivonen.iki.fi/no-dtd/ for why it's a bad idea.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Robert.
> 
> --- In [email protected], Kenneth Nellis <nellisks@> wrote:
> >
> > I've tried without success to get external entities to work. For example, let's say I want to define "blue" in a shared file as #00247D and then, in multiple, separate SVG files, reference the shared definition (as "&blue;").
> > 
> > I get that the SVG document that references the color would pull in the definition with something like the following in its DOCTYPE:
> > 
> > <!ENTITY blue SYSTEM "colors.xml">
> > 
> > And "blue" would be defined in file colors.xml, but I haven't been able to figure out how to define "blue" in file colors.xml. Suggestions would be most appreciated!
> > 
> > Ideally, I wouldn't need separate <!ENTITY�.> references in each SVG for each color, but could simply refer (somehow) to colors.xml and pull in all entity definitions in colors.xml.
> > 
> > �Ken Nellis
> >
>



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