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Dana, As everyone has already pointed out, you need to make sure that each of your EAD documents has a proper DOCTYPE declaration, such as the following: <!DOCTYPE ead PUBLIC "+//ISBN 1-931666-00-8//DTD ead.dtd (Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Version 2002)//EN" "ead.dtd"> The first part in quotes can't be changed. This is the formal public identifier for the EAD DTD. The second part in quotes is the system identifier, in other words where your local copy is stored. In this example it assumes that ead.dtd is in the same folder as your XML file. You can change the path in the system identifier to whatever you need. A useful tool in XMetaL is the catalog file, which is located in the C:\ProgramFiles\Blast Radius\XMetaL 4\Author\Rules\ folder (the full path will vary depending on which version of XMetaL you have, but it will definitely be in the Rules folder). You can add a statement to the catalog file which will automatically associate a particular DTD file with a given DOCTYPE, regardless of what path is given by the system identifier in the DOCTYPE. In other words, if you wanted all of your XMetaL users to reference a single copy of the EAD DTD stored on a shared server, you could add the following declaration to the catalog file: PUBLIC "+//ISBN 1-931666-00-8//DTD ead.dtd (Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Version 2002)//EN" "S:\Library\EAD\ead2002\dtd\ead.dtd" With this declaration in the catalog file, whenever an XML file with the public id "+//ISBN 1-931666-00-8//DTD ead.dtd (Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Version 2002)//EN" is opened, XMetaL will ignore the system id in the DOCTYPE and look for the DTD at "S:\Library\EAD\ead2002\dtd\ead.dtd". When you do this, XMetaL will also look for any macro (ead.mcr) or customization (ead.ctm) files in the same folder as the DTD file. I hope this helps, Best, Mike Rush At 05:13 PM 6/1/2006, you wrote: >Hello, > >I'm having some minor difficulty with what I think should be a >rather simple function of the XMetal software- setting the DTD to >default to EAD. When I first open the program and open an existing >xml document, it says that the file cannot be opened because a DTD >could not be found, so I have to browse for my dtd each time. I have >both an ead.dtd file and an ead.rlx file saved in the Rules folder >in XMetal, and I've been choosing ead.dtd instead of rlx since I >don't really understand the difference. > >I'm using the current Trial version while waiting for an upgrade to >4.6, but nowhere in the Help does it seem to say anything about >setting a default DTD to use everytime I open the program. Is this >actually something that can be done? > >Thanks! > >Dana Miller ____________________________________ Michael Rush | [log in to unmask] Processing Archivist / EAD Coordinator Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library Yale University P.O. Box 208240 New Haven, CT 06520-8240 Tel: (203) 432-8123 Fax: (203) 432-4047