[Biopython] cannot find elink_090910.dtd
Michiel de Hoon
mjldehoon at yahoo.com
Thu Dec 24 15:11:48 UTC 2009
--- On Wed, 12/23/09, Chris Fields <cjfields at illinois.edu> wrote:
> Just a quick question: is there any particular reason you
> need the DTDs? The BioPerl eutils interface doesn't
> use them at all, primarily b/c they aren't required on our
> end.
>
The DTDs are needed to figure out the data structure of the XML file. In other words, what is a list, what is a dictionary, what is plain data, etcetera. How does the BioPerl eutils interface know how to store the information in the XML file?
--Michiel.
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