Lars Marius Garshol writes: > I would do it like this: > > <!-- Please redefine this in any derived DTDs --> > <!ENTITY % any "EMPTY"> > > <!ELEMENT metadata %any;> I like this much better! I've named this metadata.mix to be consistent with other PEs in XBEL, but otherwise used this directly. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> PythonLabs at Digital Creations