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(python2.1-lib.info)DocumentType Objects

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DocumentType Objects
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Information about the notations and entities declared by a document
(including the external subset if the parser uses it and can provide
the information) is available from a `DocumentType' object.  The
`DocumentType' for a document is available from the `Document' object's
`doctype' attribute.

`DocumentType' is a specialization of `Node', and adds the following
attributes:

`publicId'
     The public identifier for the external subset of the document type
     definition.  This will be a string or `None'.

`systemId'
     The system identifier for the external subset of the document type
     definition.  This will be a URI as a string, or `None'.

`internalSubset'
     A string giving the complete internal subset from the document.
     This does not include the brackets which enclose the subset.  If
     the document has no internal subset, this should be `None'.

`name'
     The name of the root element as given in the `DOCTYPE'
     declaration, if present.  If the was no `DOCTYPE' declaration,
     this will be `None'.

`entities'
     This is a `NamedNodeMap' giving the definitions of external
     entities.  For entity names defined more than once, only the first
     definition is provided (others are ignored as required by the XML
     recommendation).  This may be `None' if the information is not
     provided by the parser, or if no entities are defined.

`notations'
     This is a `NamedNodeMap' giving the definitions of notations.  For
     notation names defined more than once, only the first definition
     is provided (others are ignored as required by the XML
     recommendation).  This may be `None' if the information is not
     provided by the parser, or if no notations are defined.