Wednesday 29 May 2013

What is DTD

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What is DTD?
A Document Type Definition (DTD) defines the legal building blocks of an XML document. It defines rules for a specific type of document, including:

  • Names of elements, and how and where they can be used
  • The order of elements
  • Proper nesting and containment of elements
  • Element attributes

To apply a DTD to an XML document, you can:

  • Include the DTD's element definitions within the XML document itself.
  • Provide the DTD as a separate file, whose name you reference in the XML document.


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