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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
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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
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> Massimo Castellacci
> Computer Science Graduation Course
> University of Pisa - Italy
>
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>
> 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
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