[Lazarus] the one bug that was a great feature....

[Martin]

Adem wrote:
> I am writing a general parser for DTD files and have made some headway.
> 
The FCL xml parser (xmlread unit) can parse XML-conformant DTD files for several years already.

> I need to know the general (canonical?) name for '*%HTMLlat1*;' at the 
> end of the following line:
> 
> <!ENTITY % HTMLlat1 PUBLIC "-//W3C//ENTITIES Latin1//EN//HTML" 
> "HTMLlat1.ent">*%HTMLlat1*;
> 
> I don't seem to be able to find in documents/examples on the Net.
> 
> Does anyone know what such things are called?
> 
I'm not sure I understood your question correctly. Such constructs are called "parameter entities", 
very similar to an include file. The tag <!ENTITY % name PUBLIC "foo" "bar"> declares the entity, 
and %name; is used to actually include it.
The URI to retrieve such file depends on the language used; for XHTML 1.0 it will be 
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml-lat1.ent"

Regards,
Sergei