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IS432: Semi-Structured Data Dr. Azeddine Chikh

4. Document Type Definitions (DTDs)

0. Introduction 3 DTDs are written in a formal syntax that explains precisely which elements may appear where in the document and what the elements' contents and attributes are. Different XML applications can use different DTDs to specify what they do and do not allow. A validating parser compares a document to its DTD and lists any places where the document differs from the constraints specified in the DTD. Validation is an optional step in processing XML. A validity error is not necessarily a fatal error like a well-formedness error, although some applications may choose to treat it as one.

1. Validation (1) 4 A valid document includes a document type declaration that identifies the DTD that the document satisfies. Everything in the document must match a declaration in the DTD. Validity is optional. In some cases, such as feeding records into a database, a validity error may be quite serious, indicating that a required field is missing, for example. In other cases, rendering a web page perhaps, a validity error may not be so important, and a program can work around it.

1. Validation (2) A Simple DTD Example Example 3-1. A DTD for the person This DTD would probably be stored in a separate file from the documents it describes. This allows it to be easily referenced from multiple XML documents. However, it can be included inside the XML document

1. Validation (3) The Document Type Declaration The document type declaration is included in the prolog of the XML document after the XML declaration but before the root element. (The prolog is everything in the XML document before the root element start-tag.) Example 3-3. A valid person document Alan Turing computer scientist mathematician cryptographer

1. Validation (4) The Document Type Declaration Public IDs In practice, PUBLIC IDs aren't used very much.  Most of the time, validators rely on the URL to actually validate the document.

1. Validation (5) Internal DTD Subsets When you're first developing a DTD, it's often useful to keep the DTD and the canonical example document in the same file so you can modify and check them simultaneously. Example 3-4. A valid person document with an internal DTD ]> Alan Turing computer scientist mathematician cryptographer

1. Validation (6) Internal DTD Subsets <!DOCTYPE person SYSTEM "name.dtd" [ ]> When you use an external DTD subset, you should give the standalone attribute of the XML declaration the value no. For example:

1. Validation (7) Validating a Document As a general rule, web browsers do not validate documents but only check them for well-formedness. If you're writing your own programs to process XML, you can use the parser's API to validate documents. If you're writing documents by hand and you want to validate them, you can either use one of the online validators or run a local program to validate the document. The online validators are probably the easiest way to validate your documents. There are two of note:  The Brown University Scholarly Technology Group's XML Validation Form at  Richard Tobin's XML well-formedness checker and validator at

2. Element Declarations (1) #PCDATA The simplest content specification is one that says an element may only contain parsed character data, but may not contain any child elements of any type Child Elements Another simple content specification is one that says the element must have exactly one child of a given type.

2. Element Declarations (2) Sequences It indicates that the named elements must appear in the specified order The Number of Children  ? Zero or one of the element is allowed.  * Zero or more of the element is allowed.  + One or more of the element is required.

2. Element Declarations (3) Choices A choice is a list of element names separated by vertical bars Parentheses Individually, choices, sequences, and suffixes are fairly limited. However, they can be combined in arbitrarily complex fashions to describe most rea sonable content models.

2. Element Declarations (4) Mixed Content In narrative documents, it's common for a single element to contain both child elements and un-marked up, nonwhitespace character data. A Turing Machine refers to an abstract finite state automaton with infinite memory that can be proven equivalent to any other finite state automaton with arbitrarily large memory. Thus what is true for one Turing machine is true for all Turing machines no matter how implemented.

2. Element Declarations (5) Empty Elements Given this declaration, this is also a valid image element:

2. Element Declarations (6) ANY Very loose DTDs occasionally want to say that an element exists without making any assertions about what it may or may not contain. The children that actually appear in the page elements' content in the document must still be declared in element declarations of their own. ANY does not allow you to use undeclared elements. ANY is sometimes useful when you're just beginning to design the DTD It's extremely bad form to use ANY in finished DTDs.

3. Attribute Declarations (1) Attribute Types There are 10 attribute types in XML. They are: CDATA : NMTOKEN : NMTOKENS Kat and the Kings The appropriate declaration is: Enumeration

3. Attribute Declarations (2) Attribute Types ID, IDREF, IDREFS Develop Strategic Plan Fred Smith Jill Jones <!ATTLIST project project_id ID #REQUIRED team IDREFS #REQUIRED>

3. Attribute Declarations (3) Attribute Types ENTITY, ENTITIES

3. Attribute Declarations (4) Attribute Types NOTATION

3. Attribute Declarations (5) Attribute Defaults #IMPLIED The attribute is optional. Each instance of the element may or may not provide a value for the attribute. No default value is provided. #REQUIRED The attribute is required. Each instance of the element must provide a value for the attribute. No default value is provided. #FIXED The attribute value is constant and immutable. This attribute has the specified value regardless of whether the attribute is explicitly noted on an individual instance of the element. If it is included, though, it must have the specified value. Literal The actual default value is given as a quoted string. <!ATTLIST person born CDATA #REQUIRED died CDATA #IMPLIED>

4. General Entity Declarations 22 < The less-than sign, a.k.a. the opening angle bracket (<) & The ampersand (&) > The greater-than sign, a.k.a. the closing angle bracket (>) " The straight, double quotation marks (") &apos; The apostrophe, a.k.a. the straight single quote (') O&apos;Reilly Home | O&apos;Reilly Bookstores | How to Order | O&apos;Reilly Contacts International | About O&apos;Reilly | Affiliated Companies Copyright 2004, O&apos;Reilly Media, Inc. '> The entity replacement text must be well-formed. For instance, you cannot put a start-tag in one entity and the corresponding end-tag in another entity.

5. External Parsed General Entities 23 Example 3-5. An external parsed entity O'Reilly Home | O'Reilly Bookstores | How to Order | O'Reilly Contacts International | About O'Reilly | Affiliated Companies Copyright 2004, O'Reilly Media, Inc.

6. External Unparsed Entities and Notations 24

7. Parameter Entities (1) 25

7. Parameter Entities (2) 26 Real-world DTDs can be quite complex. The SVG DTD is over 1,000 lines long. The XHTML 1.0 strict DTD is more than 1,500 lines long. The DocBook XML DTD is over 11,000 lines long. It can be hard to work with, comprehend, and modify such a large DTD when it's stored in a single file. Fortunately, DTDs can be broken up into independent pieces. For instance, the DocBook DTD is distributed in 28 separate pieces covering different parts of the spec: one for tables, one for notations, one for entity declarations, and so on. These different pieces are then combined at validation time using external parameter entity references. %names;

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