[Lazarus] DTD ENTITY question

[Adem]

On 2010-05-30 23:39, Sergei Gorelkin wrote:
> 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 should've said a general SGML parser --not just a subset of it (XML)
>> 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. 
Yes, it is a parameter entity declaration; an there's probably hundreds 
of such declarations in any DTD file worth its salt.

But, this is more than an ordinary parameter entity declaration.

I mean, a usual parameter entity definition would be as follows:

<!ENTITY % HTMLlat1 PUBLIC "-//W3C//ENTITIES Latin1//EN//HTML" 
"HTMLlat1.ent">

but this one has a '%HTMLlat1;' attached to it after the close-tag.

Obviously, it is referring to the definition just made. Fine.

But, what do we call such a construct?

What is the general name for the adding stuff after the parameter 
definition?
> The tag <!ENTITY % name PUBLIC "foo" "bar"> declares the entity, and 
> %name; is used to actually include it.
IOW, the example above has already defined '%HTMLlat1;' so what is the 
point in adding (seemingly superfluous) '%HTMLlat1;' *after* the definition?

OK. I am not really asking why; all I want to know is what would the 
general name for such things?

-- 
Cheers,

Adem