Perry, I am not sure, but I think you needed only to set the 'OMITTAG NO' into your eadsgml.dec file. Bye. Massimo -- ----------------------------------- Massimo Castellacci Computer Science Graduation Course University of Pisa - Italy mailto:[log in to unmask] mailto:[log in to unmask] ----------------------------------- C. Perry Willett wrote: > I'm finally getting around to updating our finding aid from the > beta DTD to v.1, and indexing it using the files distributed > at the LC site. I've used the Author/Editor rules file until now, > so I hadn't really looked at the DTD until today. When I tried > to index it using OpenText, I got a number of error messages, > and discovered that the file eadbase.ent is missing the minimization > indicators. As distributed, all of the elements in this file are > formatted like this in "eadbase.ent": > > <!ELEMENT ead (eadheader, frontmatter?, archdesc) > > > whereas they should include the "-" or "O" to indicate whether > the open and close tags are required or optional: > > <!ELEMENT ead - - (eadheader, frontmatter?, archdesc) > > > Once I added these indicators to all the elements, I was able to index > my file. This seems to be a fairly serious error in the DTD--has anyone > else pointed this out yet? > > Perry Willett > Main Library > Indiana University > [log in to unmask]