I'm a newcomer in EAD matters. I've been studying
har for a couple of months and I decided to implement this wonderful working
tool in a small public archive and in some private family papers collections.
There isn't anybody in Portugal, to my knowledge, working with EAD. Even SGML is
known only to a few engineers. Under this conditions, I hope everybody will
understand my simple questions and hope someone to be so kind to give me a hand,
if possible...
I've got myself a free evaluation copy of XML Spy,
an editor that is very well classified in Ari Davidow's review at http://www.ivritype.com/xml/ (thank you
for the suggestion, Mathew Hillyard, PRO).
I tried, for a start, to validade ead.dtd itself,
after having changed the entity reference "<ENTITY % sgml to 'IGNORE', as the
Guidelines say.
The result is the following
<!-- INVOKE
EADBASE
MODULE
-->
<!--************************************************************-->
<!ENTITY
% eadbase PUBLIC
"-//Society of American Archivists//DTD eadbase.ent
(Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Basic Declarations Version 1.0)//EN"
"eadbase.ent">
%eadbase;<![%sgml;[
with the cursor in the last line above just
after %eadbase; and the message: % expected!
Could someone help me with this so that I don't
stop on the first trap?...
Gratefully
José M.
Fernandes