Combining the DTDs of XML Languages
Summary: Explains how to include more than one XML language within the same document.
Multiple XML languages can be combined in the same document.
However, in order for these documents to be valid, they must
have a Document Type Definition (DTD) that allows tags from one
language to exist inside tags from another language. So if you
wanted to include MathML in a CNXML document, you would need a
DTD that allowed MathML to exist inside certain CNXML tags. Once
that DTD existed, you would declare the DOCTYPE the same as
normal. To actually use both languages you would need to use
namespaces.
Example 1
For just CNXML, the doctype declaration is:
<!DOCTYPE document PUBLIC "-//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5//EN"
"http://cnx.rice.edu/cnxml/0.5/DTD/cnxml_plain.dtd">
For CNXML and MathML, the doctype declaration is:
<!DOCTYPE document PUBLIC "-//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5 plus MathML//EN"
"http://cnx.rice.edu/cnxml/0.5/DTD/cnxml_mathml.dtd">
For CNXML and QML, the doctype declaration is:
<!DOCTYPE document PUBLIC "-//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5 plus QML//EN"
"http://cnx.rice.edu/cnxml/0.5/DTD/cnxml_qml.dtd">
For CNXML, QML, and MathML, the doctype declaration is:
<!DOCTYPE document PUBLIC "-//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5 plus
MathML plus QML//EN"
"http://cnx.rice.edu/cnxml/0.5/DTD/cnxml_mathml_qml.dtd">
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Last edited by Charlet Reedstrom on Aug 9, 2005 1:57 pm GMT-5.