Markup that establishes an entity name and its value. See also entity and entity reference.
a primary design unit, as is a configuration declaration
Entity declarations are placed inside a DTD. They contain the abbreviation to be used for an entity, and the text to be substituted for that abbreviation. They may also contain a URI if the text or data is stored at a remote location. An example of an ENTITY declaration is !ENTITY js "Jo Smith".
a formal markup declaration beginning with the keyword ENTITY. It names an entity and defines the content which it can replace. There are two types of entity declarations: general entities establish substitutions which appear in the document instance; and parameter entities define substitutions that occur within the DTD.
A statement in the DTD or document that assigns an SGML name to an entity so you can reference it.
Associates in a DTD a name with some piece of XML content that is identified by an entity reference. That content can be a literal value (such as identified by a character reference), a variable value specified elsewhere in the DTD, or some textual or binary value referenced in an external file. The last type of entity is called an external entity. Examples:!ENTITY % plistObject “(array | date | dict | real | integer | string | true | false )†!ENTITY CompanyLogo SYSTEM “/Library/Images/logo.gif†NDATA GIF87A