[Biopython] cannot find elink_090910.dtd

Michiel de Hoon mjldehoon at yahoo.com
Thu Dec 24 10:11:48 EST 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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