DTD processing
The purpose of a DTD is to define the legal building blocks of an XML document. It defines the document structure with a list of legal elements. A DTD can be declared inline in your XML document, or as an external reference.
By default, NBi doesn’t execute DTD commands in the XML file describing the test-suite. The main reason is security. But if you trust the content of your test-suite, it’s possible to activate DTD processing. To enable the DTD processing, you must change the config file and set the attribute allowDtdProcessing to true (default value is false).
Including a file in the test-suite
A good use-case for the DTD processing is the inclusion of some tests defined in an external file to your main test suite. A good reason to have this scenario is when you want to include a set of tests into two distinct test-suites.
First, in your test suite, you must specify a short name (here under “includeSecondTest”) and the filename of the file to include (here under TestSuiteIncludedTestSuite.xml).
Then at the position you want to include your file you must precede the short-name given above by an “&” and add a semi-colon “;”. (See last lines). The DTD processing will include your external file at the specified position.
You can use the same concept to include result-sets or any other idea that you could have. DTD processing has other features that you should investigate.