Attribute Question

[Philippe Le Hégaret]

Frank Blau wrote:
> 
> If I have 3 attributes ("Format", "Usage", and "Loop") that I want every
> element in my DTD to have, is there a way to globally declare them? Do
> subelements inherit the attributes of the parent element?

  No, there is no way to do this with XML.
  One solution is to use entities :

 <!ENTITY % globalAttributes
    "id ID #IMPLIED">

 <!ELEMENT A #PCDATA>
 <!ATTLIST A
    name CDATA #REQUIRED
    %globalAttributes;
  >
 <!ELEMENT LIST (ITEM)+>
 <!ATTLIST LIST
    type (ol|ul) #FIXED "ul"
    %globalAttributes;
  >

Regards,

Philippe.

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