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Re: Inheritance in XML (was Re: Problems parsing XML)

• From: "Martin Bryan" <mtbryan@s...>
• To: <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 08:49:07 +0100

Michael Kay wrote:
>I know some people will disagree, but the way I use XML, a DTD is a
>schema, an element definition in a DTD is a class, a document is a
>database, and an element within a document is an instance of a class.
>What is missing is that we can't define one class (element type) as a
>subtype of another.

In SGML you can use exclusions to make an element a true subclass of
another:

<!ELEMENT X  (%Y-contents;) -(a|b|c)>

providing a, b and c are optional components within the model for Y.
Unfortunately XML dropped this useful option from the set of SGML facilities
it in inherited

Martin Bryan




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