This DTD tutorial covers: What Is a DTD?, Creating DTDs, About Editing DTDs, About Modifiers in Element Definitions in DTDs, Defining Elements in DTDs, Defining General Entities and Parameter Entities in DTDs, Inserting White Space in DTDs, Adding Comments to DTDs, About Node Properties in DTDs, Associating an XML Document with an External DTD, Moving an Internal DTD to an External File.

The remainder of the SAX tutorial covers advanced topics that you will only need to understand if you are writing SAX-based applications.

The remainder of the SAX tutorial covers advanced topics that you will only need to understand if you are writing SAX-based applications.

This document describes an additional TEI element which may be used to encode rich textual descriptions of manuscript material of any kind. It is intended primarily for the detailed cataloguing of medieval and early modern manuscript materials in the Western European tradition, although we believe it to be more generally applicable.

The DTD you've defined so far is fine for use with the nonvalidating parser. It tells where text is expected and where it isn't, which is all the nonvalidating parser is going to pay attention to. But for use with the validating parser, the DTD needs to specify the valid attributes for the different elements. You'll do that in this section, after which you'll define one internal entity and one external entity that you can reference in your XML file.

Top 15 reasons for avoiding DTD.

This tutorial covers the basics of DTDs. Before reading this tutorial you should already be familiar with XML. You may want to read my XML tutorial. Click on the above XML link to do so.

DTD is described in XML 1.0 standard. In this tutorial basic DTD features are demonstrated on many examples.

This paper presents general background information and a status report on the development of the Encoded Archival Description Document Type Definition (EAD DTD).

DTD is described in XML 1.0 standard. In this tutorial basic DTD features are demonstrated on many examples.