A Prescription in XML?

 
 

XML:

<!DOCTYPE PRESCRIPTION SYSTEM "file:/C:/cdrom/demos/prescription.dtd" [
<!ENTITY aspirin SYSTEM "file:/C:/cdrom/demos/aspirin.xml">
<!ENTITY aspirin.formula SYSTEM "file:/C:/cdrom/demos/aspirinform.xml">
<!ENTITY children "KEEP OUT OF THE REACH OF CHILDREN">
]>
<?xml:namespace href="jumbo/cml/schema.xml" as="CML"?>
<PRESCRIPTION xml:lang="EN">
  <DRUG>
    <NAME>Aspirin</NAME>
    <PHARMACOPEIA>&aspirin;</PHARMACOPEIA>
    <STANDARD>B.P</STANDARD>
    <TABLET>
      <QUANTITY>48</QUANTITY>
      <WEIGHT UNITS="milligram">300</WEIGHT>
    </TABLET>
    <INDICATION>headache</INDICATION>
    <INDICATION>migraine</INDICATION>
    <WARNING>&children;</WARNING>
  </DRUG>
  <PHARMACIST>
    <LASTNAME>Doe</LASTNAME>
    <FIRSTNAME>John</FIRSTNAME>
  </PHARMACIST>
</PRESCRIPTION>

Peter Murray-Rust, 1998 
Virtual School of Molecular Sciences,  
University of Nottingham [*] [*]