Is there any particular reason why the format attribute of imagedata and releated elements is not declared to have type NOTATION?
Before parameter entities and conditional sections are resolved its declaration looks like this: <!ENTITY % graphics.attrib " entityref ENTITY #IMPLIED fileref CDATA #IMPLIED format (%notation.class;) #IMPLIED srccredit CDATA #IMPLIED width CDATA #IMPLIED depth CDATA #IMPLIED align (left |right |center) #IMPLIED scale CDATA #IMPLIED scalefit %yesorno.attvals; #IMPLIED %local.graphics.attrib;" > After the entities are resolved it looks lke this: <!ATTLIST imagedata format (BMP|CGM-CHAR|CGM-BINARY|CGM-CLEAR|DITROFF|DVI|EPS|EQN|FAX|GIF|GIF87a|GIF89a|JPG|JPEG|IGES|PCX|PIC|PNG|PS|SGML|TBL|TEX|TIFF|WMF|WPG|linespecific) #IMPLIED > As near as I can tell those all are in fact notation names. And this does seem like exactlly what notations are meant for, so is there any reason format isn't decalred to have type NOTATION? Should this be fixed in a future version of the Docbook DTD? -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Java I/O (O'Reilly & Associates, 1999) | | http://www.ibiblio.org/javafaq/books/javaio/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=1565924851/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe or unsubscribe from this elist use the subscription manager: <http://lists.oasis-open.org/ob/adm.pl>