Document Type Definition

set of markup declarations that define a document type for an SGML-family markup language
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Document Type Definition

Summary

Document Type Definition is a XML schema[1]. It draws 98 Wikipedia views per month (xml_schema category, ranking #2 of 5).[2]

Key Facts

  • Document Type Definition's instance of is recorded as XML schema[3].
  • Document Type Definition's instance of is recorded as file format[4].
  • Document Type Definition's part of is recorded as Standard Generalized Markup Language[5].
  • Document Type Definition's part of is recorded as XML[6].
  • Document Type Definition's part of is recorded as HTML[7].
  • Document Type Definition's has use is recorded as XML validation[8].
  • Document Type Definition's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02cql[9].
  • Document Type Definition's media type is recorded as application/xml-dtd[10].
  • Document Type Definition's file extension is recorded as dtd[11].
  • Document Type Definition's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/dtd[12].
  • Document Type Definition's BabelNet ID is recorded as 15232677n[13].
  • Document Type Definition's PRONOM file format ID is recorded as x-fmt/315[14].
  • Document Type Definition's Library of Congress Format Description Document ID is recorded as fdd000076[15].
  • Document Type Definition's File Format Wiki page ID is recorded as DTD[16].
  • Document Type Definition's Quora topic ID is recorded as Document-Type-Definition[17].
  • Document Type Definition's Wolfram Language entity code is recorded as Entity["FileFormat", "DTD-1"][18].
  • Document Type Definition's TDKIV term ID is recorded as 000000526[19].
  • Document Type Definition's P6009 is recorded as 5228[20].
  • Document Type Definition's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 84314905[21].
  • Document Type Definition's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C84314905[22].
  • Document Type Definition's ScienceDirect topic ID is recorded as computer-science/document-type-definition[23].
  • Document Type Definition's NARA File Format Preservation Plan ID is recorded as NF00162[24].
  • Document Type Definition's Dictionary of Archives Terminology ID is recorded as document-type-definition[25].
  • Document Type Definition's Dictionary of Archives Terminology ID is recorded as dtd[26].
  • Document Type Definition's FOLDOC ID is recorded as Document+Type+Definition[27].

Body

Publication

Part of include Standard Generalized Markup Language[5], a markup language[28], founded in 1986[29]; XML[6], a markup language[30], founded in 1998[31], written by Michael Sperberg-McQueen[32]; and HTML[7], a markup language[33], in United Kingdom[34], founded in 1989[35].

Why It Matters

Document Type Definition draws 98 Wikipedia views per month (xml_schema category, ranking #2 of 5).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[36] It is known by 39 alternative names across languages and contexts.[37]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . pygments.org. Retrieved . pygments.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . pygments.org. Retrieved . pygments.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [34] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [35] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [36] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [37] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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