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Re: (newbie) DTD question

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• Subject: Re: (newbie) DTD question
• From: Richard Tobin <richard@c...>
• Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 23:57:39 +0100 (BST)
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• In-reply-to: <20020712203244.80880.qmail@w...>
• Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh

In article <20020712203244.80880.qmail@w...> you write:

>This is very interesting.  An XML document is valid if
>and only if there's a DTD that it follows, so it seems
>then that the limitations of the DTD end up
>constraining the XML document:  Tags, if reused in
>different contexts (people, pets) in a valid XML
>document, must have the same subelements and
>attributes.

No, you just can't have a very precise DTD in that case.  You could
just use:

 <!ELEMENT name ANY>

-- Richard

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