Removing External Entity Declaration

You can remove the declaration of an external entity if there are no references to this entity in the document.

To remove an external entity declaration, do the following:

  1. Call up the Internal Subset Entities Dialog.

    To call up the Internal Subset Entities Dialog, do one of the following:

    • Choose Entity > Entity Declarations .

    • Right-click any entity reference in the ContentMap and select Entity Declarations from the context menu.

    The Internal Subset Entities Dialog will appear. The left Choose Entity pane of the dialog shows the list of internal and external entities declared in the document.

    Figure 1. Internal Subset Entities Dialog.



    Note:

    Only internal DTD subset entity declarations may be modified.

  2. Select the subtree of external entities.

    To select the subtree of external entities, click the External subtree.

  3. Choose an external entity.

    To choose an external entity, click the external entity's name in the External subtree.

    The right Entity Content pane of the dialog shows the filename of the chosen external entity.

    Figure 2. External entity selected.



  4. Remove the external entity declaration.

    To undeclare the selected external entity, click the Remove Declaration button.

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Removing Internal Entity Declaration