Re: [Fwd: Re[2]: Concern with basic ebXML TRP Syntax/Semantics]

["Kit (Christopher) Lueder" <kit@mitre.org>]

Yes! That provides a pure XML solution and solves the two concerns of
(1) avoiding errors or overhead of scanning the content and (2) needing
a separate DTD for the header and the content (per Alan Blount).
Kit.

> > Could you show us exactly how this is done?  I was under the (perhaps
> > mistaken) impression that one cannot create valid (verifiable by DTD) XML
> > documents that refrence more than one DTD.  My understanding is that the
> > namespaces reccommendation does not allow for "modular DTDs."
> > Alan Blount


"Miller, Robert (GEIS)" wrote:
> Could we get to a single XML document with reasonably small risk of XML
> parser failures beyond the ebXML header if we defined something like:
> 
> <!ELEMENT ebXML (ebXMLHeader,ebXMLbody*)>
> <!ELEMENT ebXMLHeader ( ... )>
> <!ELEMENT ebXMLBody ANY>
> 
> or for the 'body' parser,
> 
> <!ELEMENT ebXML (ebXMLHeader,ebXMLbody*)>
> <!ELEMENT ebXMLHeader ANY>
> <!ELEMENT ebXMLBody ( ... )>
>...
> Cheers,
>         Bob

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