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Hello!
I'm using a set of files that were given to me for a specialization and this is an error I get when I try to validate the .mod file:
Severity: fatal
Description: A '(' character or an element type is required in the declaration of element type "room".

Room is a specialized DITA topic type that was defined in the dtd, mod, and ent files--The error is this line: <!ELEMENT room %room.content;>
I think I am missing something! Please help!

The errors continue on when I am trying to publish, but I am hoping fixing this will fix the rest. Let me know if you need more context.

Nicole

<!-- LONG NAME: Room -->
<!ENTITY % room.content
"((%roomname;),
(%roomdesc;),
(%prolog;)?,
(%roombody;)?,
(%related-links;)?,
(%room-info-types;)*)"
>
<!ENTITY % room.attributes
"id
ID
#REQUIRED
%conref-atts;
%select-atts;
%localization-atts;
outputclass
CDATA
#IMPLIED"
>
<!ELEMENT room %room.content;>
<!ATTLIST room %room.attributes;
%arch-atts;
domains
CDATA
"&included-domains;"

Hi,

With the way in which DTDs work and expand parameter entities, it's hard to understand what's wrong without looking at the entire set of DTDs.
Maybe you can give us more details via email (support@oxygenxml.com) along with a zip containing all your specialization DTDs.
Looking at this entity:
I suspect one of the roomname, roomdesc, prolog, related-links, room-info-types entities is not properly defined somehow. Maybe you can remove them one by one until the validation works, so in this way finding out which of these entity definitions is to blame, then take a closer look at its definition.

Regards,
Radu