An external-text-entity #document rule allows an OmniMark program to take control of where the input to the SGML or XML parser comes from, without requiring the use of a do sgml-parse or do xml-parse action. If a down-translate program contains an external-text-entity #document rule then, instead of reading files from the command line, the SGML/XML parser uses the output of the external-text-entity #document rule.

An external-text-entity #document rule also provides a framework for explicitly providing an entire SGML or XML document entity to the appropriate parser.

Prerequisite Concepts    Aided translation types

Related Syntax    external-text-entity #document

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