Working With Parsed Entities

If several of your XML documents must refer to a single piece of information, you can store that information in an external parsed entity. Any changes you make to the external entity are then automatically reflected in all of the documents that reference it.

To create an external parsed entity:

To edit an external parsed entity:

To reference an external parsed entity in your XML document:

  1. Make sure that the parsed entity is decalred in your XML document's DTD.
  2. Right-click any element node in the Explorer or XML editor and choose Add and choosing Entity Reference.
  3. Type the name for the parsed entity and click OK.

For more information about using parsed entities in XML documents, see:

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#TextEntities

See also
Creating an XML Document
Editing an XML Document
Changing the Display of XML Nodes
DTD Nodes in the Explorer

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