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Re: XML Schema ?

• From: Kohsuke KAWAGUCHI <kohsukekawaguchi@y...>
• To: "Gregory M. Messner" <gmessner@b...>
• Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 16:32:18 -0700

> Again notice that each particle is optional but the content model itself is
> not. Without even considering XML Schema, would the following be valid XML?
> 
> DTD fragment:
> <!ELEMENT A (B?, C?, D?)>
> 
> XML document fragment:
> <A></A>

Yes, of course. I haven't re-read the spec for this answer, but there
are literally hundreds of XML vocabularies that uses empty element. For
one, in XHTML, we have <br/> and <hr/>.


regards,
----------------------
K.Kawaguchi
E-Mail: kohsukekawaguchi@y...

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