[svg-developers] Re: external entities

2012-12-01 Thread Kenneth N
I appreciate the response, Robert. I get why to avoid DTDs, but I wasn't aware that external entities had to be defined in a DTD. The syntax for importing an external entity reference... !ENTITY blue SYSTEM colors.xml ...suggests a plain-vanilla XML file, not a DTD. Am I wrong about this?

Re: [svg-developers] Re: external entities

2012-12-01 Thread Marty Sullivan
While you would be importing an xml file, you are doing so via a DTD. That specific function is probably not supported by browsers. On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Kenneth N nelli...@gmail.com wrote: ** I appreciate the response, Robert. I get why to avoid DTDs, but I wasn't aware that

[svg-developers] Re: external entities

2012-11-19 Thread Robert Longson
This is not going to work, at least not in a browser. See http://hsivonen.iki.fi/no-dtd/ for why it's a bad idea. Best regards Robert. --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Kenneth Nellis nellisks@... wrote: I've tried without success to get external entities to work. For example, let's

[svg-developers] Re: external entities

2012-11-18 Thread Kenneth N
Thanx for that, however I do have internal entities working just fine. Looking for help specifically with externally-defined ones. â€Ken Nellis --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Marty Sullivan dark3251@... wrote: I can't tell you if this is possible as I've never tried to define external