Yes, it occurred to me as I was strolling home last night that the DTD is XML-compliant--obviously there's no need for minimization codes in a markup language where minimization is not allowed. Or it should have been obvious to me. Thanks, Perry Willett Main Library Indiana University [log in to unmask] On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Massimo Castellacci wrote: > 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] >