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Foil 25 Document Type Definition

From An Introduction to XML Basic Information Track Computational Science Course CPS616 -- Spring Semester 1999. by Nancy McCracken,Ozgur Balsoy, Tom Scavo


An optional, but powerful feature of XML that provides a formal set of rules to define a document structure
Defines the elements that may be used, and dictates where they may be applied in relation to each other; therefore specifies the document hierarchy and granularity
Comprises a set of declarations that define a document structure tree
Declarations stored either at the top of each document that must conform to the rules, or alternatively, and more usually, in separate data files, referred by a special instruction at the top of each document.



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