If several of your XML documents must refer to a single piece of information, you can store that information in an external parsed entity. Any changes you make to the external entity are then automatically reflected in all of the documents that reference it.
To create an external parsed entity:
The IDE creates the file with the file name you specify and an .ent
extension. The file's parsed entity node ()
also appears in the Explorer.
To edit an external parsed entity:
The parsed entity is displayed in the Source Editor. You cannot edit parsed entities in the XML editor.
To reference an external parsed entity in your XML document:
For more information about using parsed entities in XML documents, see:
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#TextEntities
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Creating an XML Document Editing an XML Document Changing the Display of XML Nodes DTD Nodes in the Explorer |