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• Subject: RE: need a [ in an ATTLIST
• From: "Larry Fillion" <larry.fillion@c...>
• Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 09:44:17 -0500
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• In-reply-to: <IHEGINBPOILJHJECFCBHAEHGCCAA.larry.fillion@c...>

I find it interesting that the default value can have the '['

<!ATTLIST myelement myattribute1 (value1|value2) "value[">

	Larry



>  -----Original Message-----
> From: 	Larry Fillion [mailto:larry.fillion@c...] 
> Sent:	Tuesday, April 02, 2002 9:25 AM
> To:	xml-dev@l...
> Subject:	 need a [ in an ATTLIST
> 
> The following is a DTD snippet that I am trying to get to work.
> 
> <!ELEMENT myelement         EMPTY>
> <!ATTLIST myelement myattribute1 (value1|value2) #REQUIRED>
> <!ATTLIST myelement myattribute2 (value1|value2|value[) #REQUIRED>
> 
> The issue is that I need to have a potential value for myattribute2 to be
> "value[".
> 
> The first attribute "myattribute1" works just fine, but when I add the
> "value["
> to the list of potential values, I get the following error when I try to
> parse an 
> XML file (it never makes it passed the parsing of the DTD)
> 	javax.servlet.ServletException: Name tokens must not start with "["
> characters. 
> I am using a DOM implementation with tomcat/jboss. Maybe I need a newer
> parser
> to get this working?
> I tried using differnet Entities but still could not get this to work. Any
> help?
> 	Larry

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