1. Please add entries to the file 'catalog' in this directory when adding new DTDs. This will help people using various XML structure editing tools to work with your kind of XML file offline. Do not forget too that you can register a DTD for use inside the IDE (XML module) using the xml/entities/ folder. 2. Avoid editing existing DTDs. Consider making a new DTD instead (just increment its number). This will help avoid confusion and possible parse errors. 3. See for further hints. Comments, questions to dev@apache.netbeans.org. -jglick