XML: Sample XML documents

• The original posting
• Followup posting clarifying the use of PUBLIC identifiers in the sample documents

Note: The following announcement from January 1997 contains URLs for collections that subsequently have been updated. See http://www.ibiblio.org/bosak/ for references to the "XML examples" and other materials prepared by Jon Bosak.

Subject: Sample XML documents

Date: 4 Jan 1997 02:17:56 GMT

From: bosak@boethius.eng.sun.com (Jon Bosak)

Newsgroup: comp.text.sgml


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For the benefit of anyone developing XML tools, I have uploaded two
large document collections to the FTP site at sunsite.unc.edu:

  ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/sun-info/standards/xml/eg/religion.1.01.xml.zip
  ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/sun-info/standards/xml/eg/shakespeare.1.01.xml.zip

These collections can also be downloaded using HTTP.

The documents have relatively simple structures but are of a size that
can give XML tools a good workout.  The 1.01 release corrects some
errors in 1.00 and also includes DTDs for validating the documents and
for comparison with DTDs generated by XML structure analysers.

Jon

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Subject: Re: Sample XML documents

Date: 8 Jan 1997 04:53:01 GMT

From: bosak@eng.sun.com (Jon Bosak)

Newsgroup: comp.text.sgml


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In a previous message I said:

>For the benefit of anyone developing XML tools, I have uploaded two
>large document collections to the FTP site at sunsite.unc.edu:

>  ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/sun-info/standards/xml/eg/religion.1.01.xml.zip
>  ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/sun-info/standards/xml/eg/shakespeare.1.01.xml.zip

>These collections can also be downloaded using HTTP.

Tim Bray has brought to my attention the fact that these files are not
legal XML as they stand because they use PUBLIC identifiers to point
to the DTD, and the current XML draft does not allow PUBLIC
identifiers.  My apologies for any confusion this may have caused.

Since I am confidant that XML will allow PUBLIC identifiers before it
achieves official status, I am going to be lazy and leave the files
just as they are for the moment.  Tim says that he has changed his
Lark parser to handle the PUBLIC DTD identifiers, and my
recommendation to other XML tools developers is that they do the same
thing.  If you wish to test against documents that are strictly
compliant with the current XML draft, however, then you should change
the first two lines of each file in the Religion collection to read as
follows:

<?XML version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE tstmt SYSTEM "tstmt.dtd">

And you should change the first two lines of each file in the
Shakespeare collection to read as follows:

<?XML version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE play SYSTEM "shaksper.dtd">

Jon

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