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Let's not forget about the omnipotent ANY... ----- Sean Messenger Senior Internet Developer Massachusetts Medical Society, www.mms.org ----- smessenger@m... 781.434.7581 ----- 'If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.' > -----Original Message----- > From: Kay Michael [SMTP:Michael.Kay@i...] > Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 1:59 PM > To: 'Michel Rodriguez'; xml-dev@l... > Subject: RE: Can an element be sometimes empty? > > A DTD that allows mixed content also allows empty content. > > Mike Kay > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Michel Rodriguez [mailto:mrodrigu@i...] > > Sent: 25 July 2000 18:13 > > To: xml-dev@l... > > Subject: Can an element be sometimes empty? > > > > > > Hi, > > > > I came accross an interesting albeit theoretical problem today: can an > > element in a well-formed XML document be sometimes empty and sometimes > > not? > > > > <doc> > > <weird_element/> > > <weird_element>with a content </weird_element> > > </doc> > > > > I saw nothing in the spec about this situation, but on the > > other hand this > > poor well-formed document has no way of ever becoming valid, > > as the spec > > states (rule 46) that an element's contentspec is either > > EMPTY or MIXED or > > children. So you can't write a DTD for it. > > > > Expat does not seem to have a problem with it though. > > > > Is this a hole in the spec or did I miss something? > > > > Michel Rodriguez > > m.v.rodriguez@i... > > http://www.xmltwig.cx > >
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